Shirin Ebadi Quotes

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

Shirin Ebadi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: iranian
  • Birth: June 21, 1947

Topics

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I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

Jennifer Gilmore

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When my back's to the wall, I want to fight.

John Caudwell

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I'm not under obligation to provide information to everyone that wants it when they want it.

Michael Avenatti

InformationWantEveryoneObligation

I'm finding all over America that people are sick and tired of the tweedle-dee dees and the tweedle-dee dums who constantly flip-flap from one side to another. People are interested in having candidates that are truthful.

Shirley Chisholm

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If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.

Tom Sizemore

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I was a child of the '80s.

Rob Lowe

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I acted as a kid. I always liked it, but I don't really have a performer's personality.

Ron Howard

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Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

Rupert Murdoch

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White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

Joni Mitchell

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At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be.

Dick Murphy

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The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

David Souter

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And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.

Bob Schieffer

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