Jennifer Weiland > Jennifer's Quotes

“Know thyself first immortal
and loke ay besyly thow werche and wysse
To commune profit, and thow shatl not mysse
To comen swiftly to that place deere
That ful of blysse is and of soules cleere”
― F. N. Robinson - Editor, The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

“Whoever chooses to see, it is for their own good. But whoever chooses to be blind, it is to their own loss. And I am not a keeper over you.”
― Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Qurân A Thematic English Translation

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it is really all that is expected.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgement of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“We are all free to be assholes, but we are not free to do so without consequence." [On the topic of Freedom of Speech]”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“No one knows better than anyone else how to live.”
― Harold Johnson, Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People

“My laughter won't last forever—but neither will my tears.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

“What it is about Islam, I thought, that can make a woman so strong that she no longer strives to be noticed by men, no longer needs the admiring gaze to feel attractive, no longer puts herself on display when the rest of the world is doing just that?”
― Na'ima B. Robert, From My Sisters' Lips

“When I walked out of the house with hijab on, i felt beautiful in the eyes of Allah. I felt protected, shielded - i just felt somebody was watching over me'
- Nadia, a reverted Muslim”
― Na'ima B. Robert, From My Sisters' Lips

“What is it about Islam, I thought, that can make a woman so strong that she no longer strives to be noticed by men, no longer needs the admiring gaze to feel attractive, no longer puts herself on display when the rest of the world is doing just that?”
― Na'ima B. Robert, From My Sisters' Lips

“It is not Islam that oppresses Muslim women, it is the lack of knowledge or the lack of application of that knowledge that oppresses.”
― Na'ima B. Robert, From My Sisters' Lips