Zainab Salbi Quotes

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

• World
• Women
• Happy
• Myself
• Serious
• Dance

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• I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.

  

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• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

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  • Week
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• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

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  • Family
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• 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
  • World
  • Women
  • Happy