"With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity."

“I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.”

Source : "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'" by Taslima Nasrin, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

“Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches everything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field!”

“It’s really critical to have your dream life in your mind so that you’re constantly adjusting and designing your business in such a way to accomplish it, because you could very easily be highly successful and not accomplish the lifestyle you really want to accomplish in your heart.”

“Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.”

“Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.”

Source : Beryl Bainbridge (1989). “An awfully big adventure”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

“It takes a lot of energy to teach.”

“We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.”

“Your husband is the boss - and don't forget it.”