Huda Sha'arawi quotes

“Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.”
-- Huda Sha'arawi

#Women Quotes #Words Of Wisdom Quotes #Pedestal Quotes

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.”

Source : Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.90, UPNE

“Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.”

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”

Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16

“The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.”

“Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.”

“The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.”

“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!”

“Trifles make the sum of life.”

“We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.”