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Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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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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It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.
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From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
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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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Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.
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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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Stronger women build stronger nations.
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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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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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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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Passionately enjoy life!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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