...only light can do that."

It is hard to look at world events, at the horrors being perpetuated on innocent people and NOT give in to hatred. I get it. Because I give into it too. When I read about the atrocities committed by ISIS on girls as young as 10. When I see the pictures of devastation in Belgium, in France, in my home country, Turkey. I get it. I do.

But, I also believe, to the very fiber of my being, that hatred will not defeat ISIS. To quote the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - "only love can do that."

No - I am not suggesting we love ISIS. I am, however, suggesting we love each other. Just a little bit. Just enough to listen to each other with an open mind and an open heart. Love each other enough not to generalize. Love each other enough to see that there is a person behind each topic, each comment. Flesh and blood. Heart and soul.

By and large, this community is made up of women. Amazing women. Incredible women. Women of every faith and culture. Women from every corner of the world. And humanitarian study after study has shown that nothing - NOTHING - is a more powerful deterrent to poverty, war, famine than a society where women are educated, where women are empowered, and where women can make their own reproductive choices.

There is enough hatred in this world. Help us bring the light. Please be kind.