Fatema Mernissi A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing. – Fatema Mernissi Born Quotes Child Quotes Closed Quotes Doors Quotes Harem Quotes Instinctively Quotes Life Quotes Live Quotes Miles Quotes Single Quotes Step Quotes Trespassing Quotes Walk Quotes Woman 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. 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.
Neal Katyal No responsible scholar who thinks a sitting president cannot be indicted also thinks an attorney general can try to truncate a process of oversight – by Congress, for example – by ‘pre-clearing’ the president in advance. – Neal Katyal
Paul SimonRomantic There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. – Paul Simon
Mark Brand Everything I do in business – and in the kitchen, period, I believe – goes from 1940 to 1978. It’s the right way. It’s the old way. – Mark Brand
Alan Patricof My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money. – Alan Patricof
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