I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.

Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.

Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.

Stronger women build stronger nations.

I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.