Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful. Zainab Salbi More Quotes by Zainab Salbi More Quotes From Zainab Salbi Passionately enjoy life! Zainab Salbi enjoy-lifeenjoylife I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties. Zainab Salbi groupstwentieswant I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement. Zainab Salbi rightsorderneeds Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that relates from peace to food, to health, to basic stability in the world. We cannot continue to marginalize half of the population in the world in finding sustainable solutions that are good for all. Zainab Salbi issuesdecisionorder I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women. Zainab Salbi impactwarbelieve 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. Zainab Salbi warordercountry 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. Zainab Salbi homewarschool Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world. Zainab Salbi silencestoriesworld I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else. Zainab Salbi i-believeshouldbelieve No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves. Zainab Salbi discriminationwillingifs 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. Zainab Salbi issuesnumbersbelieve Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally. Zainab Salbi violencedevelopmentfaces From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression. Zainab Salbi violenceskillsfaces 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. Zainab Salbi wantchildrenyears I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice. Zainab Salbi injusticechoicesamerica 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? Zainab Salbi live-lifefalling-in-lovewar 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. Zainab Salbi motivationinspirationwar 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. Zainab Salbi motivationinspirationmilitary Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia. Zainab Salbi troopscountry 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. Zainab Salbi warkidsschool
