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.

Passionately enjoy life!

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?

Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.