Fatema Mernissi Quotes

The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

Fatema Mernissi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PastBuildTrappedNeverWithinUp

I rode all around Hollywood listening to Donna Summer, looking out the window - all by myself - just going, 'I'm number one!' It's a pretty extraordinary feeling.

Jimmy Webb

MyselfWindowListeningLookingOut

I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.

Jennifer Egan

WorkMeReadingInterestingCreating

Kids increase people's risk of eviction.

Matthew Desmond

PeopleRiskKidsIncrease

As a league player, for myself, you strive to win a comp. I'm lucky enough to have achieved that... but most sportspeople would love to go to the Olympics, and I haven't achieved that.

Sonny Bill Williams

LoveMyselfWinEnoughYouGo

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.

Simon Schama

TimeResearchWorldDeepThought

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

Rob Corddry

MyselfDayThoughtYearDownOffice

Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.

Rokia Traore

AttitudeMusicSingingProfessional

Playing with some of the best players in the world, you're going to get better every day.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

BestDayWorldBetterYouEvery Day

I am a sugar freak.

Johnny Iuzzini

I AmSugarFreakAm

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

William Osler

TruthBestMenKnowNothingNever

Understand me, Hollywood miniseries are very popular in England. But British miniseries make a tremendous mark on the national consciousness. They become part of the national culture and mythology... at least for a time.

Tim Pigott-Smith

TimeCultureMeUnderstandBecome

I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.

Marianne Williamson

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