No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

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

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

Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.

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.

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

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

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

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

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

I have 20, 000 girlfriends, all around the world.

But we can’t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.

Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let alone be absorbed in it.

It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.

I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.

People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?