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

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

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.

Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.

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?

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