“We are missing stories of women who are literally keeping life going in the midst of wars. Do you know -- 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 going? And the ones who are keeping that life are women.”

—  Zainab Salbi

Speech at TEDGlobal 2010

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Iraqi American author, women's rights activist 1969

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