"There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins."

-- Mitch Albom

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“It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights movement in the 60s here, but when I think of the Islamic feminist movement, I think of a lot of men who are very much standing with the women. It really feels like in equal numbers. Women are catching up in the field because we were not given access to knowledge and encouraged into these studies and so these men are helping us and empowering us. They are men of conscience who are fed up with this assumption that they're entitled.”

Source : "Mohammed was a Feminist". Interview With April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.
“Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For Canada is enriched by the heritage of France as well as of Britain, and Quebec has imparted the vitality and spirit of France itself to Canada. Canada's notable achievement of national unity and progress through accommodation, moderation and forbearance can be studied with profit by her sister nations.”
“Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.”
“The walls are white, the track is grey, the grass is green, and the sky is blue...your job is to keep them all where they belong.”
“He laughs best who laughs last.”
“I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.”
“Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them.”

Source : Cheris Kramarae (1992). “Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary”, Pandora Press
“We just got our ***** beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?”

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