Civil Quote by Richard Engel

Women are hit especially hard in regions of ongoing conflict. Before, during, and after conflict, women bear the brunt of the consequences of war.…

— Philomena Kwao

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee…

— Hillary Clinton

In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan,…

— Arundhati Roy

“The timing of this sudden interest in the plight of Iraqi women cannot be overemphasized. For decades, many Iraqi women activists in the US…

— Nadje Al-Ali

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

— Anonymous

Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot…

— Kumari Jayawardena

Before 2003, none of us knew which part of the country was Sunni and which part was Shi'a. This was something new to Iraq…

— Yanar Mohammed

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

— Zainab Salbi

The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a…

— Zainab Salbi

WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN...THIS WAS A PEOPLE'S WAR, AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT.

— Oveta Culp Hobby

“The vast majority of funding in support of women appears to have been directed toward the training of women as participants in political, civil,…

— Nadje Al-Ali