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.

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?

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.

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

Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.

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

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.