I am always inspired by people who I hear about or meet who are ‘raising the bar on living life’ or who help other people to do so. I was interviewing a human right’s lawyer for my film War Women and she said she used to find it hard listening to people’s everyday niggles and moans, after all her work takes her to help rape victims in Bosnia or now in Darfur in Sudan. These women very often refuse to be victims of their destroyed lives and they fight tooth and nail to reclaim their lives. One day the lawyer was in the hairdressers and over heard someone moaning about something ‘trivial’ and she felt angry. “What on earth has she got to be moaning about- she doesn’t know how lucky she is- she should live a day in the lives of those women I have been working with in Darfur” etc. Then she stopped herself and thought ‘No, actually that is what those women are fighting to reclaim- the ability to have a day where the worst they have to worry about is what hair style they are going to have. This woman who works as a human right’s lawyer inspires me- she does dangerous, frightening work. She is witness to the worst and the best of what it is to be human. But she puts her money where her mouth is and she gets to where she needs to be to do the work that will help very many people get out of very terrible situations.