Quotes from Zainab Salbi

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.

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

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.

Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.

Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.

Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.

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.

I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.

By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.

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.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

What is happening in Africa (& elsewhere) is because the men did not listen to the women & the women did not listen to the women either & because the people did not listen to each other & themselves & because nobody listened to the children & the poets. - Alice Walker

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

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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.