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- All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and…
- Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the…
- I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I…
- I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
- I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different…
- In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.
- We need a global approach to this from all sides. We need to educate people, we need the scientists to create new technologies, we need…
- From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information,…
- The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be…
- All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
- He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
- January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well…
- There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
- We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
- Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in…
- Remember that all the others are more afraid than you
- Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise…
- As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others…
- Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
- I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between,…
- I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there,…
- The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.
- The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on…
- I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle