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Every woman must own her story otherwise we are all part of the silence.

Zainab Salbi

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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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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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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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 find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.
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Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.
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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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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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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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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
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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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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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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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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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Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.
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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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Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.
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Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to 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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