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If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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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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Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.
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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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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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Every woman must own her story otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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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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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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My message to the world is that until we recognize that peace is not just the absence of war but the revival of life on the backlines, where women are keeping kids in school, caring for the sick and injured, and daily negotiating space for the continuation of critical life processes of this nature, we're going to continue to miss the point.
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The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.
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