Randa Abdel-Fattah Quotes

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• Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

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  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

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• Belief means nothing without actions

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  Mean, Belief, Action

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• The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

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  Skills, Hijab, Turbans

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• What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?

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  Don't Change, Being True, Ifs

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• But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

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  Hurt, Impact, Names

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2010). “Ten Things I Hate about Me”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

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  Pride, Self, Decision

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• Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

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  Looks, Want, Causes

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2014). “Does My Head Look Big in This?”, p.66, Scholastic UK

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• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

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  Religious, Children, Diversity

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• We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

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  Attitude, Smell, Clothes

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• Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.

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  Religious, People, Generosity

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• With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.

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  Writing, Rights, Passionate

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• I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

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  Towers, Realizing, Horror

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• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

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  Writing, Kids, Writing Stories

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• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

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  Book, Reading, Handbags

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• We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

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  Giving Up, Choices, Trying

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• You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

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  Lying, Believe, Want Something

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• Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

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  Expression, Faces, Facts

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• Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so the man decided to ease their suffering by killing them swiftly. While he worked, the cold air made his eyes water. One of the wounded fish saw this and said to the other: "What a kind heart this fisherman has- see how he cries for us." The other fish replied: "Ignore his tears and watch what he is doing with his hands.

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  Heart, Eye, Men

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• True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

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  True Friend, Love You, Imperfection

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2010). “Ten Things I Hate about Me”, p.270, Scholastic Inc.

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• there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.

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  Girl, Sisterhood, Connections

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2014). “Does My Head Look Big in This?”, p.25, Scholastic UK

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• Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

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  Thinking, Parent, World

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2014). “Does My Head Look Big in This?”, p.29, Scholastic UK

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• Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

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  Needs, Break, Yeah

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• And it’s when I’m standing there this morning, in my PJs and a hijab, next to my mum and my dad, kneeling before God, that I feel a strange sense of calm. I feel like nothing can hurt me, and nothing else matters.

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  Hurt, Morning, Dad

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• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

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  Ignorance, Hair, Speak English

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• My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

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  Strong, Intellectual, Identity

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