Royal trumpeters heralded the beginning of the annual ceremony, as Norway's royal family and this year's Nobel laureates entered the hall.
The Nobel Committee chose the three women for their activism in the cause of peaceful change in their countries.
But President Sirleaf said it really belongs to many more oppressed women around the world.
this award belongs to the people whose aspirations we have the pribilege to prpresent and whose rights we have the obligation to defend.
History will judge us not by what we say at this moment in time ,but what we do next to lift the lives of our countrymen and women.
Her fellow-liberian,leymah Gbowee,who led a group of women in white t-shirts who stared down warlords to help turn the tide of her country's civil war, also spoke about the millions of others who were not on the stage in Oslo on Saturday.
I believe that the prize this year not only recognizes our struggle in liberia and Yemen,it is in recognition of the struggle of grass -roots women in Egypt ,the Democratic Republic of Congo,Cote D'Ivoire, Tunisia,Palestine and Israel and in every troubled corner of the world.
The Three Nobel Peace Prize winners each received a medal and a diploma, and will share US$1.5 million.
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