"Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture."

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Source : Interview with Dorna Khazeni, www.believermag.com. August 2003.

Shirin Neshat

#Art Quotes #Women Quotes #Islamic Quotes

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions”
“I think the thing that is hard for a lot of bands is that there is a lot of free music out there.”

Source : "Interview: Jason Wade from Lifehouse". FanBolt Interview, www.fanbolt.com. February 1, 2010.
“When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.”
“The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.”
“In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.”
“Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.”
“Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.”
“All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.”

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