Quotes by Lynsey Addario

He spoke Spanish, English, Italian, and just enough of every other language to be able to charm women around the world.

I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

I am sure there are other versions of happiness, but this one is mine.

I never wanted to regret the kisses I missed.

I never want to regret the kisses I missed.

As a war correspondent and a mother, Ive learned to live in two different realities. Its not always easy to make the transition from a beautiful London park filled with children to a war zone, but its my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war- to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.

My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.

Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.

I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan.