Guilt's too strong a word, but there is this niggling worry that I'm a grown-up doing a childish job and it would be nice to do something more useful and to reach a number of people with an idea you think is important.
TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important ideas of our time. Our focus is on women as change agents, innovators and idea champions, and I think people will be both inspired and surprised by the program. We're exploring some fascinating territory!
We don't live in a culture of censorship, such as the Soviet Union's; we live in a culture where there is too much information, where words are drowned out, not banned, and important ideas and events are ignored.
When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
A good message will always find a messenger.
Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.
I want to talk about things that are actually important.
The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.
