Stranger: What is the most courageous thing you’ve ever done?
Me: Fall in love. What’s the most courageous thing you’ve ever done?
Stranger: Fall out of love.
404The world can be a sad, dark place. But it is also full of joy, happiness, and straight up LOVE.
(Source: thedailywhat, via evansknight)
Saudi Arabia should send female athletes to the London 2012 Olympics. As the clock ticks down to the July opening ceremony, all nations except Saudi Arabia have confirmed that women athletes will participate.
The Middle Eastern kingdom is one of only three countries never to have sent a female athlete to the Olympics
Discrimination against women and girls in sports in Saudi Arabia – as in so many other areas of their lives – is entrenched in government policy, including:
· Beginning from childhood, the government bans millions of Saudi girls from participating in physical education classes in state schools.
· The kingdom discriminates against women by denying them access to sports facilities, including gyms and swimming pools.
· The government has shut down private gyms established by women in recent years on the pretext that they were unlicensed.
· There are no sports clubs for women, compared with 153 government-supported clubs for men.
· The Saudi National Olympic Committee has no women’s section and does not hold sports competitions for women to allow them to qualify for national teams and international competitions.
“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”
—Kahlil Gibran, from Sand and Form: A Book of Aphorisms (Alfred K. Knopf, 1959)
“Night is the mother of thoughts.”
—John Florio, from First Fruits (1578)
