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

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.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.

One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.