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

If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.

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.

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

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

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?

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.