Fatema Mernissi Quotes

There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'

Fatema Mernissi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GirlWomanI AmMeEnoughYou

But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.

Jodie Foster

WorkCareNowWantProjectReally

Do me a favor - right now, today, start a list of all your crazy obsessions, the things that get your heart pumping, that wake you up in the middle of the night. Put it above your desk and use it to guide you, to jumpstart your writing each and every day.

Jennifer McMahon

TodayHeartDayMeCrazyStart

I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York.

John David Washington

New YorkNever ForgetNewForget

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Mel Martinez

FreedomVoteWillBearRightAlways

I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.

John Raese

ProudAlwaysEverythingWestBeen

I do things on a whim.

Ruth Wilson

ThingsWhim

Today's policies and political activity treat people like pawns. More than ever before, attempts will be made to use people like cogs in a wheel. People will be handled like puppets on a string, and everyone will think that this reflects the greatest progress imaginable.

Rudolf Steiner

TodayProgressPeopleTreatThink

Be bold enough to find the one thing that you are passionate about. It might not be what you were trained to do. But be bold enough to do the one thing. Nobody needs to dig it but you.

Chris Gardner

EnoughYouFindBoldNobodyDig

People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.

Christophe de Margerie

PeopleFlowersElectricityNowSay

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

Brian Greene

IntelligenceWorldYouInformation

I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.

Antoni Porowski

PlantsDeepTreesObsession

I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros.

Prince

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