I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.

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?

War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.

I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.

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.

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

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.