Top 79 Zainab Quotes
#1. What do the stars believe in, Zainab? Where do the dead horses go, what do the birds worship, and what do the rivers live for?
Rawi Hage
#2. Constantine cursed the faujis again, and then he cursed Tom Cruise for having made that bloody Top Gun movie. Since then, an entire generation of faujis had grown up thinking they could be like him just by buying those cheap rip-off sunglasses for 200 rupees from Zainab Market.
Omar Shahid Hamid
#3. I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
Zainab Salbi
#4. Our life is like a race and soon we are going to reach the ribbon ... You should race so well that your race flashbacks every Olympics
Zainab Asif
#5. 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
#6. Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.
Zainab Salbi
#7. I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.
Zainab Salbi
#8. Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
Zainab Salbi
#9. War is nothing but a microcosm of peace ... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it ... for good or bad reasons.
Zainab Salbi
#10. Standard is not the money you have nor the creed you belong to ,truly IT IS CHARACTER ...
Zainab Asif
#11. 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
#12. I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
Zainab Salbi
#13. Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
Zainab Salbi
#14. No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
Zainab Salbi
#15. 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
#16. The chaos of their voices registers as a single, overwhelming force cutting off her ability to reason, and all she wants is to get as far away from people as possible.
Zainab Omaki
#17. Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
Zainab Salbi
#18. Reasonable things would never bring you joy as much as unreasonable ones do.
Zainab T. Khan
#19. That's how life is. It's supposed to be bitter, but you have to sweeten it. You have to add just the right components and make it a treat. You have to enjoy every second of it.
Zainab T. Khan
#20. The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.
Zainab Salbi
#21. Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.
Zainab Salbi
#22. Life is like water . If we stop at a point it'll start to stink so it must be a steam which will keep moving on and will never stink ..
Feel the difference between the water that never flows it stinks and the water that never stops its fresh
Arfa Zainab
#23. I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.
Zainab Salbi
#24. In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.
Zainab Salbi
#25. I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.
Zainab Salbi
#26. 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
#28. 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
#29. Sometimes all we have to do is to trust. Let go of things is an easy job but to stay with a strong heart full of trust is even much more important then all .
Arfa Zainab
#30. Be a man who shows the world the universe in them
Zainab Asif
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
Zainab Salbi
#34. Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.
Zainab Salbi
#35. And I knew, then and there, that no matter what happens one should never let the negatives in their life become the manifesto of their whole being. It always takes two to tango. Negatives don't come without positives.
Zainab T. Khan
#36. When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.
Zainab Salbi
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.
Zainab Salbi
#40. I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.
Zainab Salbi
#41. Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
Zainab Salbi
#42. 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
#43. 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.
Zainab Salbi
#44. I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
Zainab Salbi
#45. I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
Zainab Salbi
#46. The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
Zainab Salbi
#47. Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.
Zainab Salbi
#48. The feeling, all encompassing, safe and warm like a blanket permanently draped over her shoulders, follows her around. She takes it into the shower, to meals with her mother and sister, to work as she reads out the news script, her voice never faltering.
Zainab Omaki
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. It appears easier to talk about protecting women than it is to fully include women at all decision-making levels in peace talks and post-conflict planning.
Zainab Salbi
#53. Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them.
Zainab Salbi
#54. Living in war is a co- existence with death.
Zainab Salbi
#55. From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
Zainab Salbi
#56. It is given that we'll face difficulties and breaking points in our lives but with them we'll also have lots of positive moments. We only have to recognize them and let them be. We shouldn't burden those few positive moments with the negatives in our lives or we're going to just ruin them.
Zainab T. Khan
#57. There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.
Zainab Salbi
#58. It doesn't matter if everyone thinks something is not worthy enough, it doesn't matter what the statistics say, it doesn't matter when the whole world is against something you do, as long as it keeps you happy.
Zainab T. Khan
#59. Whenever something bad happens, do not forget to smile. Even if you have to deal with this really arrogant, ruthless tycoon. You never know, sometimes a very rude and arrogant person can be melted with a heartfelt smile.
Zainab T. Khan
#60. In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.
Zainab Salbi
#61. To be an amazing person you need to be loyal to your religion,loyal to your people and loyal to yourself ...
Zainab Asif
#62. Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women. As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.
Zainab Salbi
#63. Dreaming and self-esteem are the only things to make one extraordinary ...
Zainab Asif
#64. 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
#65. It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.
Zainab Salbi
#66. Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
Zainab Salbi
#68. Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
Zainab Salbi
#69. 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
#70. From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.
Zainab Salbi
#71. 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
#72. Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.
Zainab Salbi
#73. Life is full of drama, competition, difficulties, and God knows what else. But that shouldn't rule out the love, happiness and joy we feel by being around the things we love and the people who love us.
Zainab T. Khan
#74. 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
#75. Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.
Zainab Salbi
#76. Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
Zainab Salbi
#77. The first thing they teach you is how to be somebody else. It starts from the moment you're born. You're pulled out into the world to be peered at and analysed.
Zainab Omaki
#78. It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.
Zainab Salbi
#79. Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.
Zainab Salbi
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