"Seeing the Afghan women in their burqas, it's easy to say, "Well, they're not as fully aware as I am, so why do I have to worry so much about their plight?" But that's a misunderstanding. They are brutally aware of their station."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Eliza Griswold

#Worry Quotes #Plight Quotes #Easy Quotes

“My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.”
“No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.”

Source : Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books
“...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.”

Source : SUSAN HOWATCH (1984). “THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE VOLUME 2”
“The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.”
“Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a better future and a common good. If I believed there was an afterlife I would have so much less motive for filling this life with every experience that is offered up to me.”
“I didn't know a damn thing about style.”
“We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people.”

Source : Acceptance Speech for The Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm, www.survivalinternational.org. December 2005.
“Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.”

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