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

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

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

I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.

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

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