Fatema Mernissi Quotes
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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This bikini made me a success.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
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It's so funny: at 'SNL,' Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me.
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I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.
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I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
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It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him!
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No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.
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To me, the Quran is a research book.
