Mcgilverys Pub Quotes & Sayings

Ironically, even as Khomeini empowered some women, he also found ways of oppressing their entire gender. The regime replaced the shah's secular law with an Islamic law, which allowed men to marry up to four wives, to divorce them whenever the husbands wished, and to retain custody of children. The law put the value of a woman's life at half of that of a man's life, and the value of her testimony at half that of a man's testimony.
Thus women in Iran became watchdogs and scapegoats, both the foot soldiers of the new regime and its victims. Newly empowered, they were also newly oppressed. Theirs was a paradoxical plight - and at the time, no one could have foreseen how it would one day make women a force of enormous change in Iran. — Nazila Fathi

If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. Most people couldn't wait on the luck, though, so they quit. — Charles Bukowski

Every experience, waking or dream, has a lesson or message to impart to us. — Harold Klemp

I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything. — Mary Timony

Something is very, very wrong when people don't have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity. — Vandana Shiva