"I, as a Muslim woman living in 1993, I want to have two things - the mosque and the satellite, both at the same time. And no one can mutilate me by telling me I cannot have the mosque or the Koran."

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Source : "Remembering Islamic Feminist Fatema Mernissi". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.

Fatema Mernissi

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“This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!”
“Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we mustÂ thinkÂ to give thanks.”

Source : Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.328, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.”
“Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.”
“I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.”
“People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
“...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us ascribe to the Lord at least the same amount of attention that good parents show to the requests of their children, at least that provident and attentive love which good parents have for their children.”
“Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.”

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