Zainab Salbi Quotes

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.

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

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.

I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.

I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

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.

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

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.

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.