Nawal El Saadawi Quotes
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.
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Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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As one of the first African-Americans to be out on a reality program, MTV's 'The Real World: Philadelphia,' I understand the courage it takes to live your truth on a national platform, the importance it holds to LGBT communities of color, and the power it has to create a greater conversation within American culture.
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We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
