Deeyah Khan Quotes
I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal.
Deeyah Khan
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
Laura Schlessinger
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When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.
Sadie Frost
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I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
Salma Hayek
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My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.
Banks
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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Omar Khayyam
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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
Nancy Pelosi
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My daughter loves singing above all else.
Vanessa Paradis
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I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
Natalie Dormer
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I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.
Gail Devers
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Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
Nancy Gibbs
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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
E. Joseph Cossman
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The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He's having a mid-life moment, and it's a small moment, really. I think that the character actually really loves where he's at, in his life. He's just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
Calvin Klein
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Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.
Mike Honda
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I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal.
Deeyah Khan
