Kalison Mcbride 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

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can. — Hugh Laurie

New Year's most glorious light is sweet hope! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Diversity cannot be well without the within — Aaron Ozee

Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. — Herodotus

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. — Wendell Phillips