Taslima Nasrin Quotes
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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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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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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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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I think about the Columbia crew every day. I feel like we are carrying on their mission.
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The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.
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I missed my entrance in a production of 'Blade to the Heat' at Thick Description in San Francisco. I came into the scene very late and hugged the punching bag. I had no idea what to do! Unfortunately, that mishap was recorded for archives at UC Berkeley. It goes down in history.
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Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
