Discover Your Passion and Purpose 点燃你的激情 Imagine that your feelings are a child within. If you ignore this child—by ignoring your feelings—this child feels abandoned. Our refusal to feel and take resp
Abuse trickles down from the top of the ladder to the bottom. 从上到下，一层层的力量滥用。 Women and children, especially the poor, are at the bottom. 女性和儿童，尤其是贫穷的，就这样处于底层。 Even the most destitute of men have someo
In the green room I received my uniform. 在绿色房间中我接到了我的制服。 It was not the kind of outfit that I normally wear, but it was far from the Michelin Man suit that I had anticipated. 这并不是我平时所穿衣服的类型，但是这并不是我之前所
So here's another tale of passion, and this is a sad one. 我再讲一个热情但是却悲伤的故事。 The place is a small women's clinic in a village in Bangladesh. The year is 2005. 这事发生在孟加拉的一个村子的小妇女诊所。时间是在2005年。 Jenny is a y
Passion lives here. Isn't it always true? Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. 激情永驻此地。这真的永远是事实吗？心能够驱使我们并决定我们的命运。 That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. 那是我在
What kind of world do we want? This is a fundamental question that most of us are asking. 到底我们需要怎么样的世界？这是一个我们常常扪心自问的问题。 Does it make sense to participate in the existing world order? 这对已有世界秩序行得通吗？ We
Thank you so much. It's really scary to be here among the smartest of the smart. 非常感谢。站在你们这些绝顶聪明的人之间让我感到有一点可怕。 I'm here to tell you a few tales of passion. 我将会在这里讲述关于激情的故事。 There's a Jewish saying tha
One of the organizers of the Olympic ceremony, of the opening ceremony, 奥林匹克开幕式的一位组织者， called me and said that I had been selected to be one of the flag-bearers. 通知我被他们选中，作为一名护旗手。 I replied that surel
Mapendo, in Swahili, means great love. The protagonists of my books are strong and passionate women like Rose Mapendo. 在斯瓦希里语中马培德意味着爱。我的书中的主角都是坚韧且充满热情的妇女，正如罗斯·马培德那样。 I don't make them up. There's no n
Millions of women live like this today. They are the poorest of the poor. 如今还有万千上万的妇女像这样生活着。她们是真正的最穷的穷人。 Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world'
The best four minutes of my entire life were those in the Olympic stadium. 我一生中最伟大的四分钟就在这奥林匹克体育馆中。 My husband is offended when I say this 我的爱人听我这么描述，觉得没有受到尊重， although I have explained to him that wha
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: 三种纯洁而无比强烈的激情支配着我的一生： the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. 对爱情的渴望，对
