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" One year ago I stood onstage before 2,500 people and heard my name called as a Glamour Woman of the Year. As I watched the other women being honored that night&amp;amp;#8212;including a scientist, an athlete, four college presidents and a writer&amp;amp;#8212;it struck me how different we were. And I realized that while we were a multi-textured tapestry of womanhood, the thread binding us all was made of courage. Courage is not easy to come by. Confronted with the brutality of the world around us, we need courage even to sustain hope, to believe that if humans can be cruel, we can also be noble, civilized and strong&amp;amp;#8212;that good is at least as powerful as evil. Glamour&amp;amp;#8217;s 2008 Women of the Year display many kinds of courage: moral, physical, emotional. Among them are six Nobel Peace Prize winners who make up the Nobel Women&amp;amp;#8217;s Initiative; they include Iran&amp;amp;#8217;s Shirin Ebadi and Guatemala&amp;amp;#8217;s Rigoberta Menchu Tum, who bravely confronted the injustices of their own governments. Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don&amp;amp;#8217;t need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people. Ultimately we must believe we can make a change in the world, that our contribution, no matter how small, has value&amp;amp;#8212;and that only we can make it. &amp;amp;#8212;Mariane Pearl, 2007 Woman of the Year"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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