1. The courage to tell a hidden story, Eman Mohammed
“Because of my gender, I had access to worlds where my colleagues were forbidden. … My work is not meant to hide the scars of war, but to show the full frame of unseen stories of Gazans. As a Palestinian female photographer, the journey of struggle, survival and everyday life has inspired me to overcome the community taboo and see a different side of war and its aftermath. I became a witness with a choice: to run away or stand still.”
2. The danger of a single story, Chimamanda Adichie
“Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. … When we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.”
3. If I should have a daughter, Sarah Kay
“Now I know that the number one rule to being cool is to seem unfazed, to never admit that anything scares you or impresses you or excites you. … You protect yourself from all the unexpected miseries or hurt that might show up. But I try to walk through life [differently]. And yes, that means catching all of those miseries and hurt, but it also means that when beautiful, amazing things just fall out of the sky, I’m ready to catch them.”
4. On Vulnerability, Brene Brown
“To let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen; to love with our whole hearts, even though there’s no guarantee … to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror … just to be able to stop and, instead of catastrophizing what might happen, to say, “I’m just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I’m alive.” And the last … is to believe that we’re enough. Because when we work from a place … that says, “I’m enough,” then we stop screaming and start listening, we’re kinder and gentler to the people around us, and we’re kinder and gentler to ourselves.”
5. Why good leaders make you feel safe, Simon Sinek
“Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.”