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Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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Bagdad
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Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.
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Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.
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The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.
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Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.
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Passionately enjoy life!
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Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women... As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
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I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.
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It appears easier to talk about protecting women than it is to fully include women at all decision-making levels in peace talks and post-conflict planning.
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I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.
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Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.
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I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.
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I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
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War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.
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I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
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Every woman must own her story otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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