"A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing."

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Source : "Women and the Reality of the Arab Spring: Writing New Constitutions, Leaving Out Women’s Rights" by Vivian Norris, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

Manal al-Sharif

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Husband Quotes

“Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.”
“Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, "What difference do you make?" but "What do you have in common?" It is not "excelling" but "serving" that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.”
“Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.”
“Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.”
“One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.”

Source : "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.
“~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~”
“My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.”
“I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.”

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