It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

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?

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

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

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.

Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.

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