Zainab Salbi famous quotes

03-28-2025

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Knowing #Land #Cliffs
Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Past #Leader #Silence
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.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Strong #War #Taken
Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Silence #Stories
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
-- Zainab Salbi

#America #Choices #Injustice
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.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Mean #Challenges #Way
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Lines #Firsts #Collaboration
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Discrimination #Willing
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

#Want #Twenties #Groups
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

#Children #Years #Want
Passionately enjoy life!
-- Zainab Salbi

#Life #Enjoy Life #Enjoy
Believe in your passions and act on them.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Believe #Passion #Believe In You
One year of the worldâ€™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

#Military #Years #World
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 â€” though not exclusively â€” who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.
-- Zainab Salbi

#War #Fighting #People
The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.
-- Zainab Salbi

#War #Eye #Space
Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Silence #Stories #World
As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Loss #Rights #Inheritance
The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Inspiration #World #Needs
Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Nice #Painful #Messy
While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Hair #Together #Needs
War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces, the sound of child pleading, the smell of smoke and fear. Women survivors of war are not the single image portrayed on the television screen, but the glue that holds families and countries together. Perhaps by understanding women, and the other side of war ... we will have more humility in our discussions of wars... perhaps it is time to listen to womens side of history.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Country #Children #War
Stronger women build stronger nations.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Stronger
Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.
-- Zainab Salbi

#Inspirational #Change #Risk

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