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Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.

Zainab Salbi

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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Since war often enters homes through the kitchen door, we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.
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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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Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.
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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 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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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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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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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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Believe in your passions and act on them.
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Living in war is a co- existence with death.
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Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them.
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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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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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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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Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.
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