It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.

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.

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.

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.

Stronger women build stronger nations.