"A woman has to demonstrate in every moment to be thirty times better than a man, to gain trust and to be considered. So, she has to be tenacious, combattative but not aggressive, she has to love her work a lot and not let herself be discouraged by the daily discriminiation she encounters."

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Source : "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

Dacia Maraini

#Men Quotes #Encounters Quotes #Gains Quotes

“To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.”
“I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit.”
“The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.321, Penguin
“The media has outright lied on me. They reported that I called myself Osama's [Bin Laden] 'sex slave,' apparently unaware that sex slaves aren't allowed to look their master in the eye, write poetry with him or go on hunting excursions with him.”
“The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides.”
“Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.”
“Having an eating disorder doesn't show â€˜strength.â€™ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long.Â Starving is not a â€˜dietâ€™ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses.”
“Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.”

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