"Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her."

-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.”
“When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.”
“As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.”
“I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.”

Source : Elizabeth Marie Pope, Richard Cuffari (2001). “The Perilous Gard”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.”
“CNBC is a very serious-minded financial news network, and what we've seen thus far from Fox appears to be not as investment-focused or financially focused, and that's good for us.”
“Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.”
“We must rouse in our people the unanimous wish for power in this sense, together with the determination to sacrifice on the altar of patriotism, not only life and property, but also private views and preferences in the interests of the common welfare.”

Source : Friedrich von Bernhardi (1914). “Germany and the Next War”

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