Christiane Amanpour > Quotes

“There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.”
― Christiane Amanpour

“The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don’t belong to English
though I belong nowhere else,
if not here
in English.
—GUSTAVO PÉREZ FIRMAT, “BILINGUAL BLUES”
― Christiane Amanpour, Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

“I found it a condescending expectation—that my words and mannerisms would meld into the mainstream around me—but it was also a fair question: how do you retain so strongly strands of somewhere or something you have never lived? - Nour Malas”
― Christiane Amanpour, Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

“Syria: never the country I called home, but certainly my homeland. - Nour Malas”
― Christiane Amanpour, Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

“I quickly decided to turn loss and failure into my driving force.”
― Christiane Amanpour