All Quotes

"“I’m free because I always listen to myself attentively. I’m not free when, despite listening to myself, I don’t manage to feel myself.”"

"“Writing is the most courageous and unconscious act of life.”"

"“I don’t have a child, but it is clear that it is something after which you will no longer be as young as when you were 16.”"

"“You think you’ve waited too long, that you’re a failure.”"

"“There’s like something exploding inside you … a kind of hole in the middle of the vital organs … While all this is happening, you must celebrate.”"

"“I live, but I have no choice or a reason.”"

"Check this out."

"Stop that!"

"When I decided it was time to get a journalist to look at what I have always held as a wrongful conviction, I did it thinking that reporters can go places most of us can’t. They have ways of tracking down information, getting people to talk, and resources the average person doesn’t."

"For any and every wrongfully convicted person, you can assume almost everything went wrong."

"What she did do successfully was blow wide open the idea of a fair criminal justice process. She brought to light questions of religious and ethnic bias, prosecutorial misconduct, police manipulation of witnesses, reasonable doubt, evidential reliability, ineffective assistance of counsel, maximum sentences, juvenile detention, and appellate logjams."

"You know, anybody can write a memoir of their life in so many different ways, right? It can be about my career. It can be about advocacy work. It can be about so many things."

"And when you've been carrying that around, like, your entire adult life, it feels quite amazing to be able to finally put it down and check it off your list."

"Today, there is a generational shift happening. When I started, there were only nine women in a class of 150 students in our MBA school. When it came to their life journeys, a lot of women used to give up. But today’s new generation of women are not giving up. It is important to be able to juggle between personal life and work at that point of time (when you are getting married, becoming parents) because I feel you should continue working even if you take a break for some time."

"Let the spotlight of your life be on you. For too long women have been afraid to dream about themselves. We have given them chance to be born, lets give them the chance to dream"

"For women there are no glass ceilings. Women need to dream for themselves. The empowerment and support has to come from home. From family, you need to be empowered to pursue your dreams than what companies do. I am a big believer that women empowerment has to begin at home"

"We are a very open organisation. We listen to our customers and all the ideas come from them. They tell us to bring this particular brand or open a store here. We have been very active on social media"

"I was aware of the e-commerce in US so we thought if we could marry e-commerce with the problems of Indian beauty industry and come up with a multi-brand retailer having a focus to deliver beauty experience to e-commerce will be the right way to go ahead"

"Since then, consumers from the old age group are also buying beauty products, but the initial success was from millennials"

"We've spent the last decade building a truly omnichannel beauty ecosystem, one that spans across all channels to serve the modern Indian consumer. We believe that focus on both online and offline retail — is critical for both beauty brands and beauty consumers. Today, we are proud to announce that we have crossed the 250 stores milestone. This makes us the largest network of beauty specialty stores in India, with a presence in 82 cities. Our physical retail business is not only expanding its footprint, but it is also doing so profitably"

"Nykaa is well positioned for success as we are operating in this high growth environment where BPC and Fashion are the fastest-growing categories in discretionary consumption. The online BPC market alone is projected to grow threefold from FY25 to FY30, reaching $15 billion. Similarly, the online fashion market is projected to more than triple in the same period, reaching $60 billion"

"I wish I had a co-founder from the technology field, that would have given me a great start"

"Keeping the ship at an even keel can help weather the travails of running an enterprise through the highs and lows"

"Age is no bar"

"Sense the opportunity"

"Be intentional and focused"

"Decision-making will not always be easy, and often there will be no straightforward answer. So, trust your gut to an extent, it will guide you well"

"And remember, no matter what anyone says, it is never too late to start all over again"

"Don't be afraid to take risks along the way. You are blessed to be entering a world that is now increasingly risk-friendly. Spend the early years of your career taking the right risks and make some bold bets on yourself. Test what you like and what you don't. Take on roles that put you outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself"

"I think what business you choose to build should be based on conviction; it doesn't have to be your favourite product or anything like that. I saw a business case and a business need for beauty. And that's what I chose"

"I really like the beauty industry. It's a fantastic industry. I know most of the big players in the industry, the CEOs and their senior management teams....And it's a good business. I really love the brand-building aspect of the business. Happy place, I would say, definitely"

"What I really appreciate is people who build brands. And that also is something I am a very keen observer of. What I'm really proud of is the brand Nykaa and how we built that. And it was a very conscious attempt to really build a very consumer-loved brand. And I put in a lot of effort, both organisational and personal effort towards building the brand"

"And today I think Nykaa's 'brand reality' is ahead of its 'commercial reality," she said. "I go to the smallest towns, like two hours away from Manali, and the little girls know Nykaa. So I think the brand is what I really value the most"

"Conventional practice was that TB was difficult to confirm in children."

"There was a misconception that asthma is rare in African children."

"The study showed that it's common, with prevalence rates that are often higher than global rates."

"The study will hopefully provide valuable information to identify new interventions for improving child health."

"Translational research is the bridge between clinical and basic science research."

"The implementation of findings into practice and public health including policy and guidelines."

"Despite children being a third of the population, child health is ­relatively underfunded and under­resourced."

"Child health has been worsening over the past 20 years in South Africa."

"More funding and capacity development are needed to strengthen child health programmes."

"My hope is that it helps shine a spotlight on this relatively under resourced area of research."

"Children are so seldom prioritised on the health agenda."

"There’s a lack of knowledge about the burden of childhood illnesses even though children make up 37 percent of our population."

"Much childhood death and illness is preventable."

"Improving access to affordable, effective interventions globally is vital."

"There’s so much respiratory disease and there’s so much to be done."

"I was always very interested in the potential public health impact."

"I wanted to be in an area in which you could turn things around."