Why don't you leave? the woman in the poem asked herself. We need to stop asking that question and begin to understand why she is staying. From understanding comes the ability to reach, to touch and to change. And if we help even just one woman to take that courageous first step out of violence, we have achieved a lot.

Conference on domestic violence, (27 February 2012)

The Crown Princess's speech at the opening of 2nd World Conference of Women's Shelters in Washington, 27 February 2012