Famous Quotes
“Our laziness has caused us to be hostile to every unfamiliar idea.”
Nergis, Mazid. "Western Mimicry or Cultural Hybidity: Deconstructing Qasim Amin's Colonized Voice." Gale Biography. Accessed March 15, 2011. Last modified March 3, 2011. http://i-epistemology.net/ .../726-western-mimicry-or-cultural-hybidity- deconstructing-qasim-amin-colonized-voice.html.“The number of children killed by ignorant women every year exceeds the number of people who die in the most brutal wars.”
Nergis, Mazid. "Western Mimicry or Cultural Hybidity: Deconstructing Qasim Amin's Colonized Voice." Gale Biography. Accessed March 15, 2011. Last modified March 3, 2011. http://i-epistemology.net/ .../726-western-mimicry-or-cultural-hybidity- deconstructing-qasim-amin-colonized-voice.html.“A good mother is more useful to her species than a good man, while a corrupt mother is more harmful than a corrupt man.” Darwin’s influence on the survival of the fittest and species.
Nergis, Mazid. "Western Mimicry or Cultural Hybidity: Deconstructing Qasim Amin's Colonized Voice." Gale Biography. Accessed March 15, 2011. Last modified March 3, 2011. http://i-epistemology.net/ .../726-western-mimicry-or-cultural-hybidity- deconstructing-qasim-amin-colonized-voice.html.“It is impossible to be successful men if they do not have mothers capable of raising them to be successful.” Exposes the limitations of feminism.
Nergis, Mazid. "Western Mimicry or Cultural Hybidity: Deconstructing Qasim Amin's Colonized Voice." Gale Biography. Accessed March 15, 2011. Last modified March 3, 2011. http://i-epistemology.net/ .../726-western-mimicry-or-cultural-hybidity- deconstructing-qasim-amin-colonized-voice.html.“There is no doubt that the man’s decision to imprison his wife contradicts the freedom which is the woman’s natural right.”
Amin, Qasim. "Al--Marat Al Jadidah." Translated by Ted Thornton.NMH Middle East Resource Center. Accessed March 17, 2011. http://www.mediterraneas.org/article.php3?ed.article=73-.“The woman who is forbidden to educate herself save in the duties of the servant, or is limited in her educational pursuits is indeed a slave, because her natural instincts and God-given talents are subordinated in deference to her condition, which is tantamount to moral enslavement.” Amin, Qasim. "Al--Marat Al Jadidah." Translated by Ted
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“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)