"Prayer does not change God; it changes me."

“Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.”

“The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.”

“I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.”

Source : "‘Parisienne’ Director Danielle Arbid on Telling A Positive Story About a Foreigner Living in Paris". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 12, 2016.

“There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”

Source : Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.34, Rutgers University Press

“Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.”

“In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“We're antithetical. You use your mind one way; I use mine another. I recognize what you're doing, but I can't imagine it.”

“Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers