Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

I think every teenager is a hero. When we are young we feel so much pain. Go to school is like going to war, people let you down all the time. Sometimes it's very, very difficult to stay strong, but you have to.

I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.