Fatema Mernissi Quotes
Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.
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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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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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You have to be yourself.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
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I have to admit that I was never into the boy band craze of the late '90s and the early aughts. I was into more adult things like Ricky Martin. For reals.
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Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.
