Leila Slimani Quotes
I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.
Leila Slimani
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
Haile Gebrselassie
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The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
Natan Sharansky
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
Harold H. Greene
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
Daniel Barenboim
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The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.
Imran Amed
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Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.
Allan Sherman
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If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.
Frank McCourt
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The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.
Vladimir Lenin
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I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.
Leila Slimani
