Sunetra Atkinson Quotes & Sayings

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida. — Chris Matthews

I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned. Therefore I feel it's incumbent on me personally to just contribute something, to add to a collective voice that needs to be here right now, to build it up to a tipping point, to make the world aware that women's rights still have to be addressed and that the word 'feminism' has been devalued and needs to be reclaimed. — Annie Lennox

When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. — Mo Ibrahim

There was at least some small beauty in what we'd done. — Carol Rifka Brunt

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company ... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever. — Sam Altman

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time. — Andrew Carnegie

Olivia?"
"What?" I snapped.
"I'm going to kiss you. Just so you know. — Tarryn Fisher

My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I'll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible. — Julia Glass

Before starting a fitness program or diet, know why you're doing it. Have specific goals with deadlines and visualize the end result each night before going to bed. — Robert Cheeke

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair. — Paula Cole

[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. — Adrienne Rich