Nawal El Saadawi Quotes
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very rewarding.
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I aim for the stars, and winning a world title will not be a fulfilment of a dream for me. It never has been.
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Trump's victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state.
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Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.
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There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.
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Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
