I never thought I would be considered a quantitative scholar. When I took my first statistics course in graduate school, I just did not ask the types of questions that required statistical analysis. I was interested in women in development, issues of power and powerlessness, and violence against women—not issues that are readily quantifiable. As you can imagine, I quickly learned how to ask the “right” questions. This all occurred when the democratic peace thesis began to take on a life of its own, and I reasoned that norms of inequality and injustice must surely transfer to the international arena, much the same way as those positive democratic norms are theorized to do (see Hudson et al. 2008/9). So I decided I would study conflict and war, which were readily quantifiable. And I would incorporate measures of women's equality. Thus, by some twist of fate, I chose quantitative methods as one of my testing fields and became a scholar interested in bridging the gap between feminist international relations theory and traditional international relations theory using quantitative methods.