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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 15ab697 | Qui sine peccato est vestrum primus in illam lapidem mittat," he said to me." | Liam Callanan | ||
| afde258 | World War Two had certainly made everyone very tough. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 28d9593 | Their walking relationship was unnatural, but they were too fearful to seat themselves at a restuarant to share a meal, for they knew that restaurants in our country are the principal target of the active and increasingly familiar morals committees that harass people of every nationality who live in Saudi Arabia. Such committees are composed of menancing men who unexpectedly surround and enter eating establishments, demanding identification.. | feminism relationships women royal-family society muslim oppression | Jean Sasson | |
| f7ee41b | Choking back sobs, I tried to remember a verse from Kahlil Gibran on the question of death. I first whispered it, and as a my memory of it returned, I slowly raised my voice, until all could hear me. 'Only when you drink from the river of silence, shall you indeed sing. And, when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And, when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.' My sisters and I joined .. | sisterhood women saudi-arabia royal-family patriarchy oppression | Jean Sasson | |
| 71764e7 | In California, after weeks of meeting transported Americans from practically every state in the Union, I announced to Kareem that I liked these strange loud people, the Americans. When he asked me why, I had difficulty in voicing what I felt in my heart. I finally said: 'I believe this marvellous mixture of cultures has brought civilization closer to reality than in any other culture in history.' I was certain Kareem did not understand what.. | arab-world politics opinions culture | Jean Sasson | |
| 2e106b9 | I had never been to America and was anxious to form an opinion of the people who spread their culture worldwide, yet seemed to know so little of the world themselves. New | Jean Sasson | ||
| 4cbf811 | No human being has ever had the opportunity to select a family, country, or culture." I" | Jean Sasson | ||
| 3952035 | I have the tendency to be nervous at the sight of trouble looming. As the danger draws near, I become less nervous. When the peril is at hand, I swell with fierceness. As I grapple with my assailant, I am without fear and fight to the finish with little thought of injury. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 77614d2 | I walked away, feeling the dejection keenly. I will always marvel that most powerful women do not make the lives of other women a priority in all things. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 91ab069 | cloak. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 80c8efc | born with a book in her mouth. | Jean Sasson | ||
| d5a409e | when change is needed and strongly desired by citizens, change will come, one way or another. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 728bd34 | We have witnessed all around the Middle East the tragedies that occur when citizens of repressive governments become so frustrated that they turn to those who preach violence. | Jean Sasson | ||
| a4d2388 | Then there are unreasonable men who complain that simply knowing a sensual female is in the building is too distracting for them to work productively. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 494b098 | Millions of people have become refugees and beggars when violent extremists have overthrown governments. Should this happen in Saudi Arabia, the first action taken would be to behead or burn to death every Saudi royal. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 7699928 | The man who marries a woman for her beauty will be deceived; he who marries a woman for good sense can truly say he is married. - Sultana | Jean Sasson | ||
| 38b0975 | It is much better to work with nonviolent activists, who take the time to set up appropriate organizations to work with citizens, rather than create violence in the hearts of men by refusing to allow them to participate in decision-making and government. No--Saudi | Jean Sasson | ||
| f31fd15 | Saudi Arabia does not belong to the al-Saud family. Saudi Arabia belongs to all its citizens. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 9a84da6 | when a person wishes to be angry, as Noorah was demonstrating, there is little one can do. Before | Jean Sasson | ||
| b930ec6 | Infant mortality in Saudi Arabia was among the highest in the world, for there was no money, doctors, or hospitals to treat the sick. Saudi diets consisted of dates, camel milk, and goat and camel meat. | infant-death nutrition saudi-arabia royal-family | Jean Sasson | |
| 3f14b2b | Under Muslim law, a man's freedom to divorce his wife is justified in the Koran. This system of the threat of divorce looming over a woman's security is most unsettling to women in my land. It is intolerable that many men stretch this ruling to the utmost of its flexibility, demanding divorce for the most trivial causes, ending with the continuous social degradation of their women. Women do not have the same options, since a divorce in a wo.. | marriage-laws marriage women islamic saudi-arabia quran muslim inequality | Jean Sasson | |
| 499aff9 | Then I brought up the obvious, that the physical vulnerabilities of a woman can be traced to that most important function of human accomplishments, the absorption of her strength in carrying, nursing and rearing children. I have always known that this one fact doomed females to a subordinate status in all societies. Instead of attaining honour for being producers of life, we are penalized! To my mind, this fact is the scandal of civilizatio.. | muslim-women muslim-world religion islamic society | Jean Sasson | |
| a6a572e | lethargic with hopelessness | Jean Sasson | ||
| b77f708 | to be valued and esteemed is beyond the expectation | Jean Sasson | ||
| e787554 | that the children of this generation have decayed with the ease of their lives, and that their great fortune has deprived them of any ambitions or real satisfactions. | Jean Sasson | ||
| c5d4d75 | wed. Kareem would find it difficult to outwit | Jean Sasson | ||
| d420301 | The heart of evil beats in Afghanistan. When men hold every advantage, neither wealth, nor beauty, nor intelligence, nor education, nor strength, nor family can compete with gender. Women have only prayer and hope as allies. | war feminism prayer women hope rights boys evil | Jean Sasson | |
| 7cd5181 | pergunto a mim proprio ate que ponto o silencio absoluto e o completo isolamento infligidos a um jovem encerrado numa cela podem, antes de o levarem a loucura, dar azo a uma verdadeira vida imaginativa. Vida de tal modo intensa , de tal modo viva, que o individuo se desdobra literalmente. Levanta voo e vai vagabundear por onde lhe apetece. (...), os castelos no ar que o seu fecundo espirito inventa, que ele cria com uma imaginacao tao .. | Henri Charrière | ||
| 36af09f | My name is Jean sans Peur. I was handsomer, healthier and stronger than you when I first came to the bagne. Look at what ten years have done to me. | Henri Charrière | ||
| 3b53a00 | I am not a good enough writer to convey the intense emotion I felt over my newfound self-respect. It was a rehabilitation, if not a new life. This imaginary baptism, the immersion in purity, the elevation of my being above the filth in which I'd been mired and, overnight, this sense of responsibility, made me into a different man. The convict's complexes that make him hear his chains and suspect he's being watched even after he's freed, eve.. | Henri Charrière | ||
| 831c727 | jab | Henri Charrière | ||
| ae3f2b1 | handled that, | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ce61cfb | What's on your iPod? | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e6c801c | skimble-skamble | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 3dbded6 | I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. | Mitch Albom | ||
| a01ce34 | It's funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. "The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 12630ec | Giving makes me feel like I'm living. | Mitch Albom | ||
| bd6db9a | When Morrie was with you, he was really with you. He looked you straight in the eye, and he listened as if you were the only person in the world. | Mitch Albom | ||
| fe7eeac | You know how it is--you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff, you're a 'ride man | Mitch Albom | ||
| 3bd673d | Ask yourself, 'Why did God create but one man?'" the Reb said, wagging a finger. "Why, if he meant for there to be faiths bickering with each other, didn't he create that from the start? He created trees, right? Not one tree, countless trees. Why not the same with man? "Because we are all from that one man--and all from that one God. That's the message." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4f6e5c9 | Accept the past as the past, without denying it or discarding it. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9dec659 | Life is a series of back and forth...' 'So which side wins, I ask?' 'Love wins. Love always wins. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ede537b | Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Somethings hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. Which side wins? Love wins. Love always wins. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 74e0e6e | The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. | Mitch Albom |