I think the turning point was when my daughter turned 17, and I drank 17 glasses of wine straight. ... But that was my escape from everything I had gone through from the movement — because even as we did the movement, there were traumas that were piling up.
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Leymah Gbowee
Peace activist; Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2011
Liberia · b. 1972
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Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist who organised the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a nonviolent movement of Christian and Muslim women that helped bring the Second Liberian Civil War to an end in 2003. She shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
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My key message to her, as a nine-year-old, recently has been, “You don’t need to be friends with everyone, but you’re forced to respect everyone. And everyone doesn’t need to be friends with you, but everyone is forced to respect you.”
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