"Where I grew up in Pakistan, it's really the luck of the draw. My mother got married when she was 17. She never went to college but she wanted each and every one of us to go to college and then work. She was relentless about it. And i think that part of who i am is shaped by her strength.Â If [girls] families support them, they can achieve their dreams"

-- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Girl Quotes #Mother Quotes #Dream Quotes

“Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.”
“No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.”
“People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.”
“I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.”
“Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.”
“In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.”
“I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.”
“Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.”

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