Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Quote by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Author

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an influential writer, politician, and activist known for her advocacy on women's rights, religious freedom, and anti-terrorism. Born in Somalia, she grew up in the Netherlands and gained widespread attention for her criticism of Islam and women's rights. more

You May Also Like

“There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.”

WorldWayInspirationalLooksMotivationalLanguageFourCommunicationContactBody LanguageHuman LanguageNonverbalLanguage And CommunicationLanguages CommunicationVerbal Communication
Book:The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
Create image

“[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.”

MenShouldEarthSpiritualGivenPerfectEffortExistenceMoralCasesAirEqualCapacityArgumentShould HaveBreatheEnjoyedMotiveHonorableExertionEndowmentPro Feminist
Book:In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion
Create image

“The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.”

VoiceMorningFeetCatWinterWarmSmellEveningKitchenSpokesBreakfastUncertainToastsSleepyCozyToadsPurringCanaries
Author:Kenneth Grahame
Create image