Mona Eltahawy Quotes

The Bush administration and its 'we'll liberate you by invading your countries' doctrine is thankfully behind us. It is up to us to fight for our rights inside our communities.

Mona Eltahawy

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FightYouInsideRightsUpUs

I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.

Jeff Lindsay

MorningGodWishEnoughYouKnow

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

Steven Pinker

TruthTimeSimplePeopleHypocrisy

I'm just trying to be a better fighter every time I compete, so it's all about being more strategic and looking for a way to get a finish.

Robbie Lawler

TimeLookingBetterTryingWayMore

There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Robert Burns

I AmSingingCountryAliveAnything

I think that what will help women get into positions of power - well, day nurseries, equal pay, family-friendly working hours. And I think all that's important. I used to think it was the solution. I now think it's enabling, and it's important, but still we have got head work to do about this.

Mary Beard

WorkWomenPowerDayThinkHelp

I am very reluctantly healthy.

Judy Greer

I AmHealthyVeryAmReluctantly

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. As kids, we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.

Jay-Z

LifeDayRichPovertyYouEvery Day

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

Javier Bardem

WomanManGenderYouBornIdea

I like war.

Chris Kyle

WarLike

Reason is the servant of instinct.

Clarence Day

ReasonServantInstinct

Doing 40-minute track sessions is easy money compared to what we were doing on the Tour. What you used to think was hard now feels like a walk in the park.

Bradley Wiggins

MoneyWalkThinkDoingEasyYou

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

Phil Collins

GoodTimeMeSweetRoadBetter

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