Fatema Mernissi Quotes

I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.

Fatema Mernissi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

Jill Scott

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Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.

Max von Sydow

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You have to take springtime on its own terms in the Ozarks: there is no other way. It can't be predicted. It is unsteady, full of promise, promise that is sometimes broken. It is also bawdy, irrepressible, excessive, fecund, willful.

Sue Hubbell

BrokenYouSometimesWayOwnTake

A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.

Tracy Anderson

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I'm excited to be part of the world's biggest dance show. What attracted me towards the show, apart from its global popularity, was the format of street versus stage.

Rithvik Dhanjani

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Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

Lou Reed

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When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.

Dorothy Hamill

WomenGrowing UpThinkingPowerful

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Paisley

MindsetWhyTryWhy NotEntertaining

Through film, I realized that was a safe place for me to play. It was a safe place for me to express myself and explore these things that I was afraid to explore in my real life.

Brie Larson

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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

Northrop Frye

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I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

Lydia Millet

PeopleAlwaysBeenInsaneInterested

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