It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women.


Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War (ed. Beast Books, 2013) - ISBN: 9780984295197

Leymah Gbowee Quotes

It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible...

It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible...

It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible...

It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible...