"As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day"

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked"

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed"