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Malina Suliman

"When I was 12 my brother told me I had to wear the burqa, but I really wanted to play, because I was a child. It's an age you want to play outside and have a good time. And they told me I had to wear it or I couldn't leave the home. I felt it was controlling me, because when I wore it I felt I wasn't a child anymore."

Source : "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, nytlive.nytimes.com. May 21, 2015.

Malina Suliman

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“You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.”
“A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.”
“If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.”
“Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.”

Source : "What Is Death?" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.
“All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.”
“Iâ€™ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.”
“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”
“What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.”

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