Fatema Mernissi Quotes
There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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I can only build if I tear the walls down, even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown, I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
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My mom was an executive at AT&T, a global account lady. I have no idea what she did. I just know she was never home and speaks several languages.
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There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.
