Pomiera Quotes & Sayings

The god of virginity is popular in the Arab world. It doesn't matter if you're a person of faith or an atheist, Muslim or Christian - everybody worships the god of virginity. Everything possible is done to keep the hymen - that most fragile foundation upon which the god of virginity sits - intact. At the altar of the god of virginity, we sacrifice not only our girls' bodily integrity and right to pleasure but also their right to justice in the face of sexual violation. Sometimes we even sacrifice their lives: in the name of "honor," some families murder their daughters to keep the god of virginity appeased. When that happens, it leaves one vulnerable to the wonderful temptation of imagining a world where girls and women are more than hymens. — Mona Eltahawy

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct. — William H. Macy

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich. — Jean De La Bruyere

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age. — Bjork

Distract him? What the hell was I supposed to do? Strip naked and do the hula? — Julie Kenner

Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec