On the struggles she's faced throughout her career as a barrister: "I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it or other people made me question it."
On how she realised the kind of law she was meant to practice: "I cared more about the outcome of [pro bono criminal cases] than my paid cases. And that made me think, well, why am I not doing more of that kind of work?"
On Nadia Murad, the 25-year-old Iraqi refugee she invited into her home: "She's so eloquent. There are many cases where I think, 'Well, the reality is, politically, nothing will be done.' But there is actually no reason why nothing could be done on this case, where the perpetrators were confessing to the crime."
On the #MeToo movement: "I think because of the brave women who have come forward to tell their stories, the future workplace will be safer for my daughter than it was for people of my generation. We're in a situation where a predator feels less safe and a professional woman feels more safe, and that's where we need to be."
On global justice: "The same things keep happening again, and that's the tragedy. We had genocide in Bosnia and then again in Rwanda. Somehow, the system has not evolved to a place where these atrocities are being prevented, nor are they even being properly addressed afterward . . . There's a lot of work still to be done."