Deeyah Khan Quotes
The problem with Muslim women is less that we cannot speak the language, but that no one listens to us.
Quotes to Explore
-
The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
-
For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
-
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
-
A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
-
I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
-
On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
-
I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
-
I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
-
My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
-
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
-
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
-
I want to make affordable shoes of quality that are very fashion forward, chic, and that I'm going to wear.
-
If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
-
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
-
Women know how to scare other women.
-
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
-
Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
-
I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
-
'There's always on women's magazines that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?''
-
I like children - fried.
-
I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
-
Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; ... I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. ... Blepyrus: But who will till the soil? Praxagora: The slaves. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
-
It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.
-
The problem with Muslim women is less that we cannot speak the language, but that no one listens to us.
