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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.

Zainab Salbi

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.
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Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Living in war is a co- existence with death.
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Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.
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