I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.

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

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.

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

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

I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.

Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the French occupation to the most recent revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya among other countries. The question is not their participation. Their question is the incorporation of women's voices fully in the new definitions of the countries where change has happened.