With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage.

The issue of motherhood is no longer salient. In fact, the very first female bomber for Hamas posed in her last will and testament video with her two kids.

I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.

When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for their buck, because there's more media attention.

It's cheap, and you have a thinking, breathing bomb that can adjust to circumstances and cross the street to hit another target if the original one doesn't look good.

Acts perpetrated by women, particularly attractive women, get far more media attention.

A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.

The terrorists provide an outlet where with just one action, a raped woman can go from being a source of dishonour to her family to being a source of pride in a culture of martyrdom.

Your courage to take a risk and your ability to accept responsibility will define you.

My mom used to say that faith and fear can't exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire the second half trimming it.

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.

I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.

What do you do after you go to space, more importantly? You can't go to a more intense, awesome thing. That's the end.

I keep anywhere between 5-10 percent of my net worth in venture ideas.

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.

I hope I dont give music a bad name.