Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures have created… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights. — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“I believe that the children of this generation have decayed with the ease of their lives, and that their great fortune has deprived them… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness) — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
You go first. Go through the door before me. Enter the limousine while I wait by your side. Enter the shops while I stand… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“suddenly remembered a beautiful verse by the great Lebanese philosopher Kahlil Gibran: “Mayhap a funeral among men is a wedding feast among the angels.”… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“Riyadh was the base of the government, but none of the Al Sa’ud family particularly enjoyed the city; their complaints never ended about the… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“In California, after weeks of meeting transported Americans from practically every state in the Union, I announced to Kareem that I liked these strange… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations of women… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“Surely the weakness of our monarchy in Saudi Arabia is bound up in our addiction to extravagance. I fear it will be our undoing.” — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
