"She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it."

--

Source : Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.95, Zed Books

Nawal El Saadawi

“Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself. Something changed in Saffron at that moment. She knew all about feeling left out.... That was why she wanted her angel so badly; proof that she mattered as much as anyone else. "I couldn't really climb the wall," she said. "And if I could, what if I got caught? What would I say?" "You'd think of something." "No. It was a stupid idea. Let's try your way, early in the morning." "Before breakfast?" "Yes. All right Mission Control?" "All right," said Sarah. "All right, Superhero.”
“As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly.”

Source : Source: www.sbnation.com
“Speech is but the incorporation of thought.”
“You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.”
“I think kids should be doing pickup or futsal all the time,”
“Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem.”
“Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.”
“What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.”

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