"In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the use of such terminology shows my own intellectual disposition and biases."

-- Asma Barlas

#Feminist Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Wish Quotes

“I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.”

Source : "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation". Book by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor, 2001.
“What is healing, but a shift in perspectives?”
“The power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its impact would have been far less. For this sort of reason Stent had argued that a scientific discovery is more akin to a work of art than is generally admitted. Style, he argues, is as important as content. I am not completely convinced by this argument, at least in this case.”
“Loveless moments are to be avoided.”
“I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.”
“Iâ€™VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEYâ€™RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.”
“You don't learn how to say 'hey, I have a problem,' but you also don't learn how to hear it. There's a total breakdown of how females talk to one another. It's very disconcerting for leadership because it means you don't talk to each other; you talk about each other.”

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