I find extraordinary resilience in women. If I look back at South Africa, and I think of all those instances where the men were sent to prison, I see it was the women who earned their living and sent their children to school, who got them an education. The women had to take over, and to support their husbands who were in prison at the same time. And even now, in a poor area, no matter what happens, the women always stand up to do something about it. It happens all the time.
Life continues and people just go on.
When I was in Goma in the Congo last year, the refugees from Rwanda were going there, especially the ethnic Hutus. When I got there they had already been chased from there to another place, and a lot of them had been killed. One of the sisters took me to see the site of the camp, and it was all full of pieces of plastic which still had the UN logo on them. And there were also rows of flowers that women had planted. They had planted vegetables as well, but the soldiers had taken the vegetables.