Elif Safak Quotes

My readers are surprisingly mixed. I have conservative readers - for instance, women with headscarves - but also many liberal, leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, and secularist readers. Next to those are mystics, agnostics, Kurds, Turks, Alevis, Sunnis, gays, housewives, and businesswomen.

Elif Safak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: turkish
  • Birth: October 25, 1971

Topics

WomenConservativeNextLiberalMany

Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for Fiorina, who he basically said, 'Who would vote for you? Look at her face.'

Maxine Waters

ColleaguesFaceYouLookElection

I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right to vote, and they're out there fighting for other countries' rights to vote... Guys have been dying for it, and we have to go out and exercise it.

Robert Griffin III

LifeFightingExerciseGoKnowVote

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

Michael Gove

LeadershipDaughterPartyLaborSame

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

Steve Brown

LearnDoingWorthYouAnythingWell

I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I don't want people to just remember me for one thing.

Sterling K. Brown

PeopleMeRememberWantJustFlash

We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

Steve Yzerman

PastWinningGameBetterSeasons

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

Shirley MacLaine

WomenHollywoodOldRealBeingEach

We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.

Travis Kalanick

TruthEvilDarkDangerousOutSide

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Tony Kushner

QuietShySocialAwkwardSortTend

I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.

Tony Orlando

HeartTrainingSchoolMeGrammar

Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.

Mike Royko

CookingRememberYouChoicePersonal

It doesn't matter who you are: being human is being human. Everyone has days that are challenging.

Miranda Kerr

YouMatterHumanBeing HumanDays

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