Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.
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Related When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist a... DEBORAH ELLIS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Af... ARUNDHATI ROY The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the T... GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING defending the religious freedom of Christians. THE FOUNDATION Gloria. THE FOUNDATION Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States. HAMID KARZAI And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur... JAMES JONES When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately insti... GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS ,i>Since the Holy Spirit Gifts men and women alike, women should bel allowed to lead in the manne... ALAN GARRETT I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we... LORILIAI BIERNACKI I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we... LORILIAI BIERNACKI The Communist Party leadership intends to intensify its campaign against overzealous investment in 2... MICHAEL KURTZ If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recen... KHALED HOSSEINI There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NA... RICHARD ENGEL When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regim... YAIR LAPID Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer fi... ANN COTTON I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN Finland has been a great supporter in the disarmament campaign. You have a remarkably low number of ... IRENE KHAN Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE This endorsement and expressions of support points to what we have been saying since the beginning o... ELLEN JOHNSON Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We must fight against oppression even if it means fighting against one of our own - inferiority only... MICHELLE JOHN Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. AMIT RAY One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The majority of my audience has always been women. TEDDY PENDERGRASS When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got? CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS In mid-November 2001, as they moved toward the city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto capital ... PETER BERGEN What seems to be Free or Cheap often costs more than what looks like Expensive THE NEWAGE FOUNDATION Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... I've been going to the race since 1996. DAVE WIGGINS The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign. VALERIE JARRETT He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH You are a furry gnome and we feed you too much! Dorothy to Sophia THE GOLDEN GIRLS The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is n... MALALA YOUSAFZAI You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice. ELEANOR CATTON I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro... ELEANOR CATTON I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas. ELEANOR MONDALE A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men. ELEANOR MONDALE Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good... ELEANOR CATTON When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and... ELEANOR CATTON I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble... ELEANOR CATTON I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one... ELEANOR CATTON Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for th... ELEANOR FARJEON Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. ELEANOR FARJEON The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found sign... ELEANOR ACER One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do ... ELEANOR ACER It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decisi... ELEANOR ACER This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution t... ELEANOR ACER The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than mos... ELEANOR MONDALE To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe wha... ELEANOR CATTON We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th... ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT What you don't do can be a destructive force. ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You cant live long enough to make them all yourself. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, its their fault; if they betray you twice, its your fault. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if yo... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well. ELEANOR MARX Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind ELEANOR ROOSEVELT