"Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up 40 percent of Afghanistanâ€™s doctors, 70 percent of its teachers and 30 percent of its civil servants. A small number of women even held important political posts as members of Parliament and judges. Most women did not wear the burqa."

-- Eleanor Smeal

#Girl Quotes #Teacher Quotes #School Quotes

“Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.”
“Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it.”
“Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!”

Source : Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.
“Jazz is freedom. You think about that.”
“I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.”

Source : "Jerry Hall turns 57! Looking back at her hottest fashions and fierce Texan one-liners" by Lucy Buckland, www.mirror.co.uk. July 02, 2013.
“The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.”
“Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.”
“The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.”

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