Deeyah Khan Quotes

Women with education, skills, and independent sources of income are more able to withstand the pressures of the patriarchal family and more able to express their opinions and to move freely within their communities.

Deeyah Khan

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So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

Jim Harrison

FamilyMoneySituationBecauseIdea

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Jhumpa Lahiri

ArchitectureSchoolWonderWhyWrite

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

Minnie Driver

WomenWorldHideOrderGetMuch

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

Dizzy Dean

MedicalNothingHeadFoundDoctors

I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.

Clementa C. Pinckney

HomeGodMeChurchAlwaysWithin

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

Cindy Sherman

ArtInterestTraditionalAny

Family dramas are tough, as a playwright. Most stories are about characters going on a trip or a new character coming to town, because that's how you learn information about them. But with family, they all know each other already. There's years of history in every interaction.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

FamilyCharacterHistoryToughLearn

When girls scream my name and start crying, I blush like crazy.

Ansel Elgort

CrazyStartNameBlushLikeScream

What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

William Wilberforce

SmallHelpCountryCivilizationMust

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

Suzy Amis

MeEasyGoBarbieTryOut

Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.

Sydney Carter

FutureFaithPastThoughtMayProof

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

Richard Land

GodEvilStrongWhoCivilThose

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