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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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Bagdad
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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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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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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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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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Living in war is a co- existence with death.
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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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Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.
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I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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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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It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.
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Women are not just victims they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
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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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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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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.
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Stronger women build stronger nations.
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I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
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