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

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.

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

I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

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 still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that relates from peace to food, to health, to basic stability in the world. We cannot continue to marginalize half of the population in the world in finding sustainable solutions that are good for all.

Stronger women build stronger nations.