Fatema Mernissi Quotes

One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

Fatema Mernissi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: moroccan
  • Birth: September 27, 1940 - November 30, 2015

Topics

EducationWomenStrongPushDream

I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.

Jesse Johnson

WorkGoodJobSchoolBrotherWorld

It eventually ends, and that's what I think a lot of athletes forget. It's 10 years after the Olympics, and you won the Olympics, and that's great, but no one cares.

Max Aaron

GreatThinkYouForgetYearsCares

I'm like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can't afford me.

Anna Kournikova

MeRestaurantYouLookExpensive

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.

Sophie Turner

FunTeenLookBackTelevisionWill

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

Troian Bellisario

GoodWorldOpportunitiesDifficult

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

Travis Barker

PeopleThinkMusiciansDoingKnow

I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.

Molly Sims

WatchingUpArnoldJackGrewPalmer

In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.

Jason Calacanis

WorkTechnologyVacationWeekWould

To a certain extent, I think I've become an animal-rights person.

Jason James Richter

ThinkPersonBecomeI ThinkCertain

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

Alfred Molina

StarsHeroRomanticPeopleNever

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

William Hazlitt

ColdOldUpStomachAgainstLike

If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.

Timothy Noah

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