(7 Oct 2011)
1. Wide of Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner
2. Mid of hands
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner:
"I was anxious to put on my phone because my sister had surgery yesterday and by midnight I had not spoken to her, she was still in intensive care. So worried, wanted to know what had happened, turned on the phone and text messages. When to the first one - 'yippee, yippee, congrats', it was all fuzzy until I read the one from Abbey which said - 'Nobel, Nobel, Nobel. Congratulations my friend. I told you you would get it.' Tears. And sat by a guy for five hours on the flight and we never spoke to each other, but I had to tap him and say, Sir, I just won the Nobel Peace Prize."
4. Mid of Gbowee
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner:
"It is a shock. It is not was, I am still shocked. People had always said, every time I went to place to work or speak, you deserve the Nobel Prize, you'll win the Nobel Prize. I didn't think twice about it, I didn't even think I was worthy of the prize, because I've never really thought I've done anything great, or I'm doing anything great. Everything I do is an act of survival for myself, for the group of people that I work with. So if you are surviving, you don't take your survival strategies or tactics as anything worthy of a Nobel."
6. Wide of Gbowee
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner:
"I hope and believe that this is a resounding call by the committee and really anchored by the world that women's role in peace and security issue is not just at a dismal level, but that woman have an important role as negotiators as generals in the army. Women have important roles in peace and security issues and I think that this is an acknowledgment of that. The second thing is that globally, I've been telling people, the world is functioning on one side of its brain. When 50 percent of the world's brain, meaning the women, are not - their skills and their intelligence is not being used to advance the cause of the world. I think this is also an acknowledgment that it is time for us to make real all of these commitments we put on paper about equality in every field."
8. Pan of Gbowee
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner:
"Don't wait for any Mandela - don't wait for any Gandhi - and don't wait for any King. You have to be your own Mandelas. You have to be your own Gandhis. And you have to be your own King. You know your issues. You know your priorities. You know your concerns and you know how to address them. Stand up, step out, and work for your own peace."
10. Zoom into Gbowee's book
STORYLINE:
Leymah Gbowee said on Friday that she was shocked to have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, adding that there was still much to be done for women's equality across the globe.
The 10 (m) million kronor (1.5 (m) million US Dollar) award was split three ways between Gbowee, fellow Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and democracy activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen - the first Arab woman to win the prize.
The prize committee in Oslo, Norway, cited their work on women's rights, describing it as fundamental to the spread of peace around the world.
"When 50 percent of the world's brain, meaning the women, are not - their skills and their intelligence is not being used to advance the cause of the world. I think this also an acknowledgment that it is time for us to make real all of these commitments we put on paper about equality in every field," said Gbowee.
Gbowee said she hopes the Nobel will help get out her message:
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