Top 22 Quotes by Zainab Salbi

About Zainab Salbi

These are some quotes by Iraqi author Zainab Salbi Activist, who was born in 1970.

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?

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

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

Zainab Salbi

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.

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

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

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

Zainab Salbi

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.

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

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

Zainab Salbi

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

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

Zainab Salbi

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.

Zainab Salbi

There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?

Zainab Salbi

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

Zainab Salbi

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