There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty. '
Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
There is not a revolution that succeeded in a few months. It takes years, even decades, to fulfill its goals. I am very hopeful because I trust the revolution and feel nobody can really conquer a nation that has decided to be united and to fight, and we decided to fight. The revolution is there, inside the Egyptians by the millions.
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.
I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.
. . . the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.
What [Adolf Hitler] felt deep inside he wasn't going to show to outsiders.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.