Quotes About Awareness

Many admire, few know.

I grew up in Rayagada in Orissa state in eastern India. Few people have even heard of it.

Few people think about politics every day. But they are in the market every day.

There's a reason why, outside of me dropping a few, people don't throw my way, man.

There are very few things in the world that make me feel a feeling, really.

Few things focus the mind like fear.

I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.

I'm ashamed how little science fiction I've read.

In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

In high school, I didn't realize that science or engineering were male-dominated fields. When I got to college, and I was one of two girls in a 50-person class, that's when I realized that this was a unique decision I had made as a girl to go into engineering.

You can't fight for your rights if you don't know what they are.

I am a fighter. I appeal to all the women in the world. Look around, speak up.

In boxing, if a fighter doesn't leave the sport on time, something bad is likely to happen.

I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

I've never been the biggest boxing fan. If I know the guy I will watch him. But if it's two great fighters and I don't know either of them then I won't bother.

I've been fighting BDS before people even knew that BDS existed.

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.

I'm always watching every featherweight that fights in the UFC because we can eventually fight in the future.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.