us a splendid example of love, service, and cooperation. They are the symbol of the sheltering, merciful heart, and the emblem of faithful friendship — not for money, prestige, and power, nor in pursuit of gain, but for giving, sacrifice, and devotion to the wretched."
As for the article she published on Woman's Week, in the February 1952 issue of The Woman's Voice — she had earlier broadcast it from Radio Lebanon — she said in it: "Woman's Week is the week of all-embracing national dignity, for the renaissance of woman in demanding her rights is proof of the maturity of general national feeling and of its saturation with the national pride that befits rising peoples as they demand life. A nation has no dignity except through the liberation of all its members from psychological complexes that make those afflicted by them feel lowliness and inferiority beneath the members of other peoples. This week is proof of a fully matured consciousness that has awakened to the feeling that equality is due among all individuals, men and women alike, in all rights and duties; and proof of an understanding of responsibilities and of rising to shoulder their burdens."
And her article entitled "Optimism Is Strength," published in the magazine "Child Care" in January 1957, is one of the signs that remind me of the self-confidence she possessed, her faith in God, and the smile that never left her radiant lips. In this article she warns against the inner weakness that makes one's powers tremble in adversity, saying: "Anxiety and panic are among the diseases of the soul that weaken resolve just as bodily ailments weaken men's bodies; good cheer and optimism are a strength that aids serenity and a spur that kindles the
individual's energy in his personal and national work. This is what we need on the road that brings us to the summit of our rising. In every stage of his life, man can benefit and be of benefit in his cheerfulness, which breeds resolve, boldness, and optimism. Among our failings — we Easterners — are quickness to anger, quickness to despair and pessimism, and violent agitation over the most trivial of causes. How cheap is the price of life lived in weariness, and
how little its worth! And among the first sources of serenity, or optimism, are self-confidence and faith in God. My Lord, open for me my breast."
How sweet it is to close my words where she cited the saying of God Almighty: My Lord, open for me my breast. Salwa will remain alive among us through her living, humane literature; and there is no fear for a pen whose veins are of the veins of truth, and whose ink is of the water of life.
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