Taslima Nasrin Quotes

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

Taslima Nasrin

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• I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

  

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• You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.

  

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• Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

  

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• We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins

  

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• When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.

  

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• I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.

  

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• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books