Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.

The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.

Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.

A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.

Dance when the sun comes up.

Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

Meanwhile, I was doodling pictures of vampiric cougars.

I can gab with pretty much anyone.

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.

Life is about making right things and going on.