"In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a women who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family."

-- Shirin Ebadi

#Firsts Quotes #Lawyer Quotes #Prison Quotes

“If you have a dream, FOLLOW IT.”
“I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all right there, it would be a little overwhelming. I don't know how you'd have a relationship. When you have a relationship, don't two people collude to kind of forget certain things?”

Source : "Dylan Walsh Talks ‘Unforgettable’ Role, Working With Poppy Montgomery". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2012.
“Suddenly I burst into song: 'Awe, sweet mystery of life, at last I found thee...' And I felt so good inside and my heart felt so full, I decided I would set time aside each day to do awe-robics. Because at the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.”
“There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.”
“I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.”

Source : Source: www.djbooth.net
“In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.”
“It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.”
“I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.”

Source : Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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