Getting a second job has never released us from the first. Two jobs have only meant for women even less time and energy to struggle against both. Moreover, a woman, working full-time in the home or outside of it as well, married or single, has to put hours of labor into reproducing her own labor power, and women well know the tyranny of this task, for a pretty dress and hairdo are conditions for their getting the job, whether on the marriage market or on the wage labor market.

Martin Luther King wasn't alone in creating the civil rights movement. He also needed Malcolm X, who used other means--violent means--to help fighting the same battle and to achieve the same end. When do you stop trying to resolve things peacefully and use force instead? What makes a person cross that line?

Palestine, my Palestine, you look so different at night. No more checkpoints and barbed wire scarring your landscape, no more turrets popping out from the earth like metallic mushrooms, no more snaking Wall, insidiously butchering and dividing your belly. How nice to live in the dark without setting eyes on ugly the scars Israel has inflicted on you, not to have to subjugate ourselves again and over again to occupiers on our land.

Nawal El Saadawi menekankan perlunya perempuan menemukan identitas mereka sendiri--tidak hanya terpisah dari laki-laki, tetapi juga menantang pandangan negatif tentang budaya dan masyarakat mereka yang merupakan warisan kolonialisme dan imperialisme. "Sekarang, di Barat, segala sesuatu yang berhubungan dengan masyarakat Muslim adalah negatif. Namun, ada hal-hal positif. Karena alasan tersebut, mempelajari sejarah adalah hal yang penting. Mempelajari sejarah memberi kita kepercayaan pada asal usul kita, peradaban kita, dan kita melakukan pembangunan berdasarkan hal tersebut. Para penjajah cenderung mengasingkan kita dari masa lalu dan sejarah kita, dan hanya memaksakan bagian negatif dari sejarah kita."

Redirecting your thoughts by practicing self- care can help you feel calmer and more in control—and that enables you to tackle problems in a more constructive way.

Simplicity has become so elusive and desirable because the modern age is so troublingly, infinitely noisy and abundant.

We are bathed in options, surrounded by too much information with too many competing visions of happiness. We crave simplicity not because we are simple, but because we are drowning in complexity.

Dignity is like clean air. You do not notice its absence unless it is short supply. You do not realize how much you need it, how important it is to you, until you don’t have it.”