Grief Struck Synonym Quotes & Sayings

When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which a woman can choose what she wishes to do, it's not about liberating her, but about unclothing her. It becomes an act of humiliation and cultural imperialism. It's not about the burqa. It's about the coercion. Coercing a woman out of a burqa is as bad as coercing her into one. Viewing gender in this way, shorn of social, political and economic context, makes it an issue of identity, a battle of props and costumes. It is what allowed the US government to use western feminist groups as moral cover when it invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Afghan women were (and are) in terrible trouble under the Taliban. But dropping daisy-cutters on them was not going to solve their problems. — Arundhati Roy

A kiss that was every bit as big and every bit as small as a kiss can be. — Kami Garcia

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. — Andre Maurois

Do you think," Maxon asked, "that I could still call you 'my dear'?"
"Not a chance," I whispered.
"I'll keep trying. I don't have it in me to give up." And I believed him. It was annoying to think he'd press that issue.
"Did you call all of them that?" I nodded my head toward the rest of the room.
"Yes, and they all seemed to like it."
"That is the exact reason why I don't. — Kiera Cass

Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time. — Barry Levinson

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else. — Haley Joel Osment

I wanted to create my own world, a world full of color, where everyone could play. One big party that never ends. — Michael Alig

Things are so different now that it feels they were all different people then, like characters you read about in a book, not the younger version of your own self. — Neel Mukherjee