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Women can build stability. We can make peace.

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

I hope that through Fast Forward, we can encourage women everywhere to know their power wherever they find themselves; to find their purpose; and to connect with others in order to create a better world - especially for women and girls.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.

When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.

It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.

Investments in women are positively correlated to growth, prosperity, stability, democracy, health - and vital to our national security. We cannot write off the talent of half the world and expect to confront our challenges.