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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

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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

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“But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the in­comparable pretties of Indian Mexico.”

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“The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.”

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“She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between his knees and looked completely exhausted--it hadn't occurred to me that it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for me.”

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