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

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.

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

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

While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

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.

Living in war is a co- existence with death.