While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.