"A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper."

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Wafa Sultan

#Women Quotes #Half Quotes #Population Quotes

“To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.”
“If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
“If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.”
“The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind back in politics, in economics, in industry, in science, in philosophy, in culture.”
“It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.”
“Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems.”
“I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.”

Source : "Diablo Cody Explores The Ugly Side Of Pretty In 'Young Adult'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.
“To women silence gives their proper grace.”

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