I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture – as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine. Azar Nafisi Read Quote
Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing. Shirley Manson Read Quote
The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I’ve never thought of myself as this face. Juliette Binoche Read Quote
Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust. Gustav Heinemann Read Quote
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. Mahmoud Darwish Read Quote
Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich. Charles Saatchi Read Quote
Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that’s the most important relationship in their lives. Alice Lowe Read Quote
