"Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved,"

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Source : "Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban" by Aryn Baker, content.time.com. August 9, 2010.

Fawzia Koofi

#Sacrifice Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.”
“In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.”

Source : "Insatiable creatures" by Adam Phillips, August 7, 2009.
“Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.”
“We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.”

Source : Jan Chozen Bays (2011). “How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications
“The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.”

Source : Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution
“I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.”
“Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.”

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