I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges. Taslima Nasrin
I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?
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Jess C. Scott
You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?
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Jodi Picoult
A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.
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Debasish Mridha
Love is the sister to Truth, but they differ in two ways. You must go to Truth to find her. She will never come looking for you. However, you are never to go looking for her sister Love. Love will find you in your own...
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Suzy Kassem
Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.
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Mike Norton
More Quotes By Taslima Nasrin
It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've...
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of...
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
