The system we envisage is not just limited to Kurdish women it the Middle East. It's like a mirror everyone should be able to see themselves reflected in. Our line of women's autonomous and self-defence is a road map we present. It's a society-building project. Women everywhere can benefit from its programme, philosophy and way of life and adjust it to their own contexts. In different parts of the world, women can paint our proposals with their own colours.
- Meryem Kobane, YPJ commander in the battle for Kobanê, where women first defeated Daesh, 2015, Tell Mozan, Rojava/Syria