Mona Eltahawy Quotes

To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.

Mona Eltahawy

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FaithReligionStepOpinionsWrite

I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

Amy Chua

LifeWorkLoveSuccessGreatChild

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

Stephen Sondheim

FatherMy OwnSeeDaysOwnMany

We're not born stuffy and boring.

Troy Nixey

BornBoring

I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?

Robert Englund

TodayWaterPeopleWindYouKnow

The Left hates United States' sovereignty, capitalism, Christianity, and the freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. To the Left, anything that helps undermine those institutions is an ally, not an enemy.

Tom Tancredo

CapitalismConstitutionEnemyLeft

I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

TimeCultureI AmGrowing UpYouUp

We have a highly specialized customer and want to give her the best experience somewhere she can trust.

Mindy Grossman

TrustBestExperienceCustomerWant

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Lucretius

ReligionEvilDeedsPotent

Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas.

Lou Barlow

GoodSomeoneYouLittleEngineer

Until I got the weight off, there was something inside of me that said, 'You hate yourself.' You get too depressed over the weight to really work on this. For whatever reason, I had to take the weight off to do this work.

Lisa Lampanelli

WorkHateYourselfMeYouSaid

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Don Marquis

IntegritySpiteSomeLikeable

When I meet somebody in the street who knows about 'Humans of New York,' a lot of times they might have a scripted answer, and that scripted answer is the first thing to come out of their mouth.

Brandon Stanton

New YorkMouthNewStreetMeetOut

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