When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while.

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.