Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.

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.

True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.