Jacqueline Novogratz

By helping a woman, you help a family.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.