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 an enormous chasm between the joyeous light of the age of the Renaissance to the dark shadow of September 11, 2001. Those of us living on that fateful day experienced the lower depths of mankind. As… — Jean Sasson Copy Share
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 behind, guarding your back. Sit at the table before me. Please, sample the tastiest morsels while I sit quietly. My desire is that you go first, in every occasion of earthly life. Only once will I… — Jean Sasson Copy Share
“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
