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Shahla Khan

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Nonfiction, Self Help, Ebooks

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Shahla Khan is a feminist author, corporate trainer, educator, speaker, blogger and social activist. She loves creating thoughtful elements of work that talk about social justice and a fresh perspective. She works late nights and enjoys converesations with intellectually curious people who love to wander, wonder and explore the universe.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 52 ratings · 13 reviews · 10 distinct works

	I Want Back My SPARKLE!: Breaking the global chains of gender slavery. 3.11 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Congratulations You've Failed 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lean On What- 5 Things You Need To Consider To Retain/Recruit Women in Engineering 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Theft 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Third World Woman it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HOW TO BUY A NEW CONSTRUCTION HOME WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND: AN HONEST GUIDE FROM AN INDUSTRY EXPERT BEOFRE YOU START YOUR SEARCH by Christina Zamora, OLIVIA PHAN (Editor), Shahla Khan (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Third World Woman: 'Weird AF' Tales of an Unapologetic Feminist' it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Theft: Your Personal How To, What To & How Come Guidebook on RAPE (1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evaluation of Connective tissue stroma in Oral Squamous cell Carcinoma: A Histochemical Study 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Why Are Single Independent #Indian #Women An Eye Blister For Their Families?

Yes, I’m talking about that one…The one that doesn’t care about her ticking biological clock as much as the next door neighbor,The one that rolls solo and is proud of it,The one who doesn’t shy away from dating and keeping her standards high,The one without an account on e-harmony, tinder or cheat-on-your-spouse. com…Yes, I’m talking about the society’s nightmare- THE SINGLE, INDEPENDENT WOMAN! a. Read more of this blog post »

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Re: Imagining Change: How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World

by Patrick Reinsborough (Goodreads Author)

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“Every woman in this world wears a little sparkle, some in their dress, and some in their eyes.”
― Shahla Khan, I Want Back My SPARKLE!: Breaking the global chains of gender slavery.

tags: empowerment-of-women, sparkle, women-s-rights

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“Revolution does not begin with a group. It begins from the heart.”
― Shahla Khan

tags: change-the-world, power-of-thoughts, revolution, social-change

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“Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.”
― Shahla Khan, Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence

tags: assault, domestic-violence, enjoyment, fun, harassment, melody, pain, powerless, rape, suffering, violence

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“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
― Sidney Sheldon

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“Every woman in this world wears a little sparkle, some in their dress, and some in their eyes.”
― Shahla Khan, I Want Back My SPARKLE!: Breaking the global chains of gender slavery.

tags: empowerment-of-women, sparkle, women-s-rights

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“Revolution does not begin with a group. It begins from the heart.”
― Shahla Khan

tags: change-the-world, power-of-thoughts, revolution, social-change

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“Ah, Love…what can I say?
16 to 18 love is like butterflies, colorful and fluttering
18 to 20 love is like roller coaster ride, bumpy and exciting
20 to 23 love is like a lab experiment, fun but you need to have practical results in the end
23 to 26 love is shopping, you want to keep trying until you find what fits exactly
26 to 30 love is arrangement, you settle with the convenient and feasible options
After 30, will tell you when I am there...”
― Shahla Khan, I Want Back My SPARKLE!: Breaking the global chains of gender slavery.

tags: ageing, love, relationships-advice

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“Humanity is higher than religion, so says my religion.”
― Shahla Khan, I Want Back My SPARKLE!: Breaking the global chains of gender slavery.

tags: being-right, fair, humanity, making-change, religion

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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Oct 16, 2014 09:11PM

Quantum Thief~ Broken Puppet Princess wrote: "Thanks for the friend request! :)"

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message 5: by Arjun

Mar 11, 2014 10:51PM

Dear Book-lover & author,

I viewed your profile and noticed you a good book-reader and penned various books. I am too a writer and recently penned a new fiction named MUGGER. It is focused on corruption, criminalization of politics and various others problems pertaining to society. Its Hindi version too awarded by NHRC for safeguarding human rights. I would appreciate if you read my fiction and apprise me about its deficiencies so that I can make further improvement in my writing. MUGGER is available on paper-back in :- Flipkart, Infibeam, Crossword, uRead, Power-publishers etc. MUGGER will soon be available on e-book through orders.india@partridgepublishing.com.
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Jan 02, 2014 08:37PM

Thanks for the friend request! :)

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