Restricted Choices Quotes

After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.

In the village where I grew up, a lot of girls didn't have a choice of whether to go to middle school. They would get engaged or married and spend their entire life in that village.

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.

I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.

In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

My parents have mellowed quite a bit, but, growing up, there was a sense that the only real professions were doctor, engineer, lawyer. Those were your choices.

I became conscious in later life that I had been given an education that enabled me to do all kinds of jobs, but often, jobs weren't open to me.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

I eat chicken and rice, steak, and baked potato. That's it.

We're all diminished and restricted by sweeping statements defining boy and girl, our expectations and disappointments with ourselves, the way we look, what we enjoy, and the choices we make.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

The only thing I wanted when I left school was independence. I had been at boarding school for many years. When you're boarding, nothing is your own and your whole day is scheduled. You're told when to sleep, what to eat and when. You have zero independence.

I look at all my opponents, and they could be something else. They could go out and get a normal, regular job. I look at myself and I can't do that. I have a strike on my back. I can't have a normal job. So, I've got to fight for everything I've got.

I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, you might not see them. You might just think, "I don't have any options." You usually go to the dark side, in that situation.

How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school ... Technical high school, that's where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, "You can do anything you want." Their whole lives. "You can do anything!" But this place, we take kids - they're 15, they're young - and we tell them, "You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you."

I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?

None of us have to settle for the best this administration offers - a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.