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# Karen Pence

Karen Sue Pence (January 1, 1957 –) is an American educator, teacher, painter, and the former Second Lady of the United States.

## Quotes

* It’s really a home. It’s not like the White House because there aren’t tours of the vice president’s residence. You don’t really go there unless someone invites you to go there. It’s really a warm kind of home. It’s like a Victorian home. It has a wrap-around porch. You can sit out on the porch and feel like you have some privacy. We’re pretty private and we’ve been living on Meridian Street where it’s right there. So I think we’re kind of looking forward to having a little bit of privacy there, or as much as you can get with cameras all around.
** Karen Pence focuses on moving family forward amid hoopla (January 20, 2017)
* One of the things near and dear to me is art therapy. Even as an art teacher and someone very involved in the arts, I never knew what art therapy even was. These men and women go to graduate school and they actually are therapists that use art, especially at Riley, they’re making such a difference, so I’m looking forward to that.
** Karen Pence focuses on moving family forward amid hoopla (January 20, 2017)
# Karen Leigh King

Karen Leigh King (born 1954, raised in Sheridan, Montana, United States) is an historian of religion working in the field of Early Christianity, who is currently the Hollis Professor of Divinity (Harvard University)

## Quotes

* [The Gospel of Mary is an] intriguing glimpse into a kind of Christianity lost for almost fifteen hundred years...[it] presents a radical interpretation of Jesus' teachings as a path to inner spiritual knowledge; it rejects His suffering and death as the path to eternal life; it exposes the erroneous view that Mary of Magdala was a prostitute for what it is—a piece of theological fiction; it presents the most straightforward and convincing argument in any early Christian writing for the legitimacy of women's leadership; it offers a sharp critique of illegitimate power and a utopian vision of spiritual perfection; it challenges our rather romantic views about the harmony and unanimity of the first Christians; and it asks us to rethink the basis for church authority. All written in the name of a woman.
** The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle. 2003. pp. 3-4.
* Modern scholars understood Gnosticism to be a particular kind of heresy. They have generally divided the earliest varieties of Christianity into three categories: Jewish Christianity, Gnosticism, and orthodoxy. The first appropriated too much Judaism and took too positive an attitude toward it; the second appropriated too little and took too negative an attitude. ... Orthodoxy was just right, sailing between this Scylla and Charybdis, appropriately safe from both dangers.
** What is Gnosticism?. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2003. p. 7. ISBN 0-674-01762-5.

## External links

* Karen Leigh King at Harvard Divinity School
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Karen Kandie

Karen Njeri Kandie, (née Karen Njeri), but commonly known as Karen Kandie, is a Kenyan accountant and business executive, who serves as Director, Parastatal Reforms(Financial) at the Kenya National Treasury. Prior to this, she was the chief executive officer of IDB Capital Limited (formerly Industrial Development Bank of Kenya), a division of the Kenya Ministry of Trade and Industry.

## Quotes

* The minimum amount we lend is Sh5m and the maximum, Sh200m but all is not cast in stone.
** "IDB Capital keen to promote SMEs in Kenya", Business Daily (June 29, 2018)
# Karen King-Aribisala

Karen Ann King+Aribisala (born Guyana) is a Nigerian novelist, and short story writer. She is a Professor of English at the University of Lagos.

## Quotes

* But you try to listen to the other person’s point of view as “The Black Lady The” does.
* Simply by believing in God and leaving it to God to change things. Which is again not to say that you don’t do anything on your own part.
* You hear another person’s point of view. You may agree with it or not but you are all achieving to some vision.
* you cannot negotiate truth: truth is truth because it is truth. You can’t talk around it you know. Whether one sees it as a perversity or not I believe it is a perversity.
* When you are criticising or analysing something it is different to when you are writing it and sometimes you can see more than the person who is sitting writing it ‘cos that’s the job of the critic.
# Karen Meagher

Karen Meagher is a British actress.

## Quotes
### Auditioning for the Apocalypse (1984)

Auditioning for the Apocalypse, DVD special feature: Threads: remastered. Director: Mick Jackson. 1984. 2-disc special edition. Severin Films Inc., 2017.
* I think if you put an infallible weapon into man's fallible hands there is always a threat that something's going to go wrong.
* I was unaware really of the importance of it at the time, but I was asked to go for an interview, which I did, and I was the first person that Mick Jackson saw for the part. And I went looking rather radical, because I thought "oh, it's about nuclear war", you know, and I'm a very radical person, so I kind of went wearing my sort of "combat gear" which was very "in" at the time. And it was really strange, because afterwords, when I got the part of Ruth, who turned out to be a very fragile sort of a person, I was surprised and he said having been the first one, he saw me for the part. He obviously saw something in me that was, I don't know, vulnerable, maybe. It was the only time I've ever said to a director "I would really like a part in this, regardless of what that part may be", because I knew that the content would be close to my heart.
* It was cloaked to a great extent in secrecy almost. [...] You knew what it was about, but the script was a close-kept secret I think. Not many people had seen it, and I think they were worried that it would go the same way as War Games, which was made but never seen, so it was all quite mysterious really.
* At first he said that he wouldn't do Threads, but then he thought about it and thought, "Well, I'd rather nobody else do it, I'd rather do it myself".
** On Barry Hines
* I think Threads didn't keep people at arm's length, it drew people in because of the characters that everybody knew. I mean, we related to them, and that's what I think made Threads so visceral for people.
* We did have rehearsal time at the BBC and we did have access to material out of Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), which hadn't really been accessed at the time by people in the Western world, so literature that was grim, seriously grim. And I know there were times when I used to come home on the bus after rehearsal and having sort of steeped myself in this research where I wanted to shout out to everybody on the bus "do you know? Do you know what this is about? What could happen to us?". It gets into your bones a bit when you are working that closely with things.
* It's hard to watch and it should be hard to watch. It should frighten people, and if it's done that, it's done its job.
# Karen Ingala Smith

Karen Ingala Smith is the CEO of nia (niaendingviolence.org.uk), a domestic and sexual violence charity working to end violence against women and girls, based in London, UK, and advocate of gender-critical feminism.

## Quotes

* We've made Freedom of Information requests going back to 2009 about men's fatal violence against women. From this we've identified that 62% of women killed by men are killed by a partner or ex-partner, and that at least a third of these women were in the process of leaving, or had left him; that teenage girls, as well as women in their 80s or 90s, can be killed by men who were supposed to love them; that 92% of women who are killed by men are killed by someone they know. One in 12 is a woman who is killed by her son.
** "The 81 women killed in 28 weeks", The Guardian (2 October 2021)
** The article title refers to the period of time following 3 March 2021, the presumed date of the murder of Sarah Everard by a (male) Metropolitan Police constable, and the number of women killed, where the main suspect is male, since then. For some years from 2012, Smith ran a blog entitled Counting Dead Women.
* All women are controlled by men's violence. Whether or not they are the ones on the receiving end, it affects every one of us.
* Young, professional, conventionally attractive, white women who are killed by strangers get the most attention but we must stop perpetuating this hierarchy of victims.
** "Why I have spent a decade counting murdered women", The Times (3 October 2021)
* The figure of eight per cent of women killed by men in the UK being killed by a stranger is consistent with the average since our records began in 2009. So ask me whether anything has changed since Sarah's murder, and my answer is no.
** As cited by Amy-Clare Martin in "At least 350 women killed by men since murder of Sarah Everard", The Independent (2 March 2024)
# M. K. Stalin

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin (born 1 March 1953) is an Indian politician serving as the 8th and current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu state in India.

## Quotes

* Alleging that BJP was enforcing Sanatan Dharma that rejects equality, freedom and brotherhood in the country, VCK had named the convention "Save Nation" from the hands of RSS and BJP. DMK president M K Stalin said the meeting had turned out to be an event to oppose Sanatan. "The Sanatan forces came to power. There is no threat from Pakistan and China but from the rulers of the country. The second war of independence is the election in May this year," he said. "If we are called anti-national for opposing BJP, we wholeheartedly accept the title," said Stalin calling for defeating Modi at the Centre and chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami in the state.
** in Jan 24, 2019, DMK-led alliance sounds battle cry against 'Sanatan forces'
* DMK has never stood against or will ever stand against anybody's religious sentiments or devotion. Both spiritual and rationalist campaigns can co-exist here.
** On his party's stance on religion, as quoted in "DMK has never stood against or will ever stand against anybody's religious sentiments or devotion. Both spiritual and rationalist campaigns can co-exist here". India Today. 24 May 2022.
* They (the BJP) think that the people of Tamil Nadu will vote for them if they quote Thirukkural, celebrate Pongal and construct a temple in Ayodhya. They haven't understood us. This is Periyar's land, Anna's land and Kalaignar's land.
** In DMK Youth wing meet, DMK youth wing meet sounds war cry for Lok Sabha elections 22 Jan 2024
# M. S. Purnalingam Pillai

Munnirpallam Sivasubramaniam Purnalingam Pillai (25 May 1866 – 6 June 1947) was a Tamil language-writer and Dravidologist.

## Quotes

* In the course of centuries the Tamil Saivas, who were vegetarians and who had looked upon the Aryas as mlecchas for their [habits of] meat-eating and drinking intoxicants and as untouchables came, by the force of juxtaposition, of aryan adaptability, and of political contingencies, to be reconciled to the ways and habits of their neighbours and to accept the authority of the Vedas, [. . .] Saivaism, accepting the Vedic rule, became metamorphosed into Vedic or Vaidika Saivaism.'
** Quoted from Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (Princeton, N.J.). (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
* The Saiva Siddhanta is the indigenous philosophy of South India and the choicest product of the Tamilian intellect. [. . .] This high and noble system, based on the Agamas or Saiva scriptures, was corrupted by the puranic writers, whose sole object was to reconcile the Vedas and the Agamas [. . .] The Tamilar, overbourne by the political ascendancy of the Aryans, accepted the system, [. . .] Bhakti or loving piety, the root idea of the Saiva system, ennobled the persons, whatever their caste, colour or creed [. . .] Such a widely tolerant, ennobling, rationalistic faith has been made to assume the garb of a thoroughly intolerant, fictitious, and meanly selfish system. The Tamilar, therefore, are in duty, bound to throw off the puranic veil which dims their vision and to realise the old conception of Him as enshrined in the ancient Tamil poems based on the Tamilian Agamas.
** Quoted from Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (Princeton, N.J.). (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines

## Quotes about Pillai

* Even those Tamil scholars who regarded Tamil literature and civilization to be superior to Sanskrit did not demonize Sanskrit. A good example was 'Manonmaniam' Sundaram Pillai. He claimed that Tamil was superior to Sanskrit because Tamil was still used in his day as a popular language. A Tamil song by him has been recognized as the official song of Tamil Nadu. However, he never denigrated or rejected Sanskrit, and visualized Tamil and Sanskrit as two eyes of the Goddess of learning, though for him Tamil was the right eye. When Bishop Caldwell dated the seventh-century Saiva saint Thirugnana Sambandar at the end of the thirteenth century, Sundaram Pillai refuted this dating and emphatically established that Sambandar could not be dated later than seventh century CE.
** Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (Princeton, N.J.). (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
# M. Rahim Khan

Mohammad Rahim Khan was a two star Pakistani military general, diplomat, and later civil servant who served as the 14th defence secretary of Pakistan from November 1980 to December 1981. Before the partition of the Indian subcontinent, he served in the British Indian Army twice in 1943 with the second appointment in 1951. General Rahim also remained CGS of Pakistan Army. He has also served as president of the National Defence College.

## Quotes about Khan

* Rahim started to criticise the senior commanders in Dhaka, especially me, although I happened to be a friend of his. He was of the opinion that the Bengalis were timid people and should have been subdued long ago. The reader can judge for himself the ignorance and lack of understanding of the East Pakistan situation among the hawks in the armed forces.
** Major General (Retd.) Khadim Hussain Raja - A Stranger in my own Country. East Pakistan, 1969-1971-Oxford University Press (2012) page 96
# M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James OM (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English biblical scholar, medievalist, palaeographer and bibliographer, but is best remembered for his Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and other works of supernatural fiction.

## Quotes

* I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.
** "Count Magnus", from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904); The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James (London: Edward Arnold, 1947) p. 111.
* "There was a man sitting or kneeling on Sampson's window-sill, and looking in, and I thought he was beckoning…He looked as if he was wet all over: and," he said, looking round and whispering as if he hardly liked to hear himself, "I'm not at all sure that he was alive."
** "A School Story", from More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911); The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James (London: Edward Arnold, 1947) p. 188.
* A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!"
** Preface to More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911); cited from Michael Cox (ed.) Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) pp. 337-8.
* Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.
** "Some Remarks on Ghost Stories", in The Bookman, December 1929; cited from Michael Cox M. R. James: An Informal Portrait (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) p. 150.

## Quotes about M. R. James

* James is regularly cited as a – or the – founder of the ‘tradition’ of English ghost stories. It is commonplace to then wryly point out that James’s ghosts are in fact often not ghosts, but inhuman ‘demons’ of one sort or another.
** China Miéville, "M.R. James and the Quantum Vampire". Collapse IV, May 2008. Quoted in James Machin, Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019 (p.21).
* There are some authors one wished one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time. For me, M. R. James is one of these.
** Ruth Rendell, "Introduction" to A Warning to the Curious: The Ghost Stories of M. R. James, London, Hutchinson, 1987 (p.iv).

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on M. R. James on Wikipedia
* Works related to Author:Montague Rhodes James on Wikisource
* Media related to M. R. James on Wikimedia Commons
# M. Ward

Matthew Stephen Ward (born October 4, 1973), known by his stage name M. Ward, is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who rose to prominence in the Portland, Oregon music scene. He also works with Zooey Deschanel as the group She & Him.

## Quotes

* I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.
** On his album Post-War and the postwar music of the late 1940s and 50s, as quoted in Vanity Fair (August 2006)
* The songwriting style, to me, is superior... there was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.
** On songwriting styles of the post-World War II era, in an interview with Bob Boilen on All Songs Considered (17 November 2006) (NPR)
* I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas... Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.
** Quoted in "Time" is right for songwriter Ward" by Jill Menze at Reuters (9 January 2009)

### Hold Time (2009)

* When you're absolute beginners, It's a panoramic view, From Her Majesty, Mt. Zion, And the Kingdom is for you.
** "For Beginners"

## External links

* M. Ward's homepage
* M. Ward official Myspace page
* M. Ward official Facebook page
* Future Farmer infopage
* Matador Records infopage
* Merge Records infopage
* Review of "Post War" on Subculture Magazine
* Lazy-i Interview: July 2003
* Trouser Press entry
* Prefixmag.com Interview: October 2006
* M. Ward Concerts & Interviews at NPR Music
* Guitars Played By M. Ward at Fretbase
* Phrequency.com Photos/Review: February 2009
* M. Ward article (March 2009)
* AV Club interview
* In Music We Trust interview
* Vanity Fair article
* Monsters of Folk Myspace page
* Official She & Him site
# Maria Hinojosa

Maria Hinojosa (born July 2, 1961) is a Mexican-American journalist. She is the anchor and executive producer of Latino USA on National Public Radio (NPR), a public radio show devoted to Latino issues.

## Quotes

* A writer is always so conflicted about their work, so it was liberating to be able to be in this space of my words, without being judgmental or changing anything. I vividly remembered the ideas that I had, where I was when I had them, how I imagined this moment of holding this book, I was emotionally connected to it. I reflected on the story of my arrival, and then my time as a young woman. I cried during the scene of my rape, and I found myself rooting for my character as I read on! I laugh about it now because I am the character, she is me! The process of narrating completely transformed my relationship to the memoir, even after I never imagined that it would.
** On the power of narrating her memoir Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America in “INTERVIEWS: Maria Hinojosa” in BookPage (2020 Dec 3)
* Imagine this story as if you were telling it to your mother. I always write with this in mind. Keep in mind this doesn’t necessarily work when writing a memoir, but it helps to focus on telling the story to one person. I didn’t have an image of a reader, per se, but I knew that I had to use my voice to connect to them. When you connect to somebody’s writing, it is powerful because it is such an intimate experience, but imagine an added element—the element of your voice. You can use your own voice to exude sensuality, anger, love, raw emotions. I go into the studio a lot, so doing this wasn’t particularly hard for me. I just close my eyes and go into a space.
** On whether she envisioned an audience in “INTERVIEWS: Maria Hinojosa” in BookPage (2020 Dec 3)
* The hardest part of my narration was when I read about my assault. I cried. It took me a while to get through it, maybe because of the way I wrote it. It was very graphic and one of the parts of the book that I wrote while crying. It felt like the scab was off, and I was diffing deeper into my wounds when I talked about this moment and others.…
** On the part that was the most difficult to narrate in “INTERVIEWS: Maria Hinojosa” in BookPage (2020 Dec 3)
# Maria Khan

Maria Jamila Khan (Urdu: ماریہ جمیلہ خان; born 9 November 1990) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder and captains the Pakistan women's national team.

## Quotes

* I had the opportunity to go to Saudi before the influx of investment into the women’s game
* However, my circumstances at the time didn’t allow me to make the move. Now, however, I’m at a point in my life where I am able to take this opportunity and really look forward to it.
* Being in the Gulf for over 10 years, I’ve watched the growth of women’s football in the region. More than anything, I’m looking forward to being given the opportunity to try my best not only to represent but also try to bring awareness to fellow Pakistani athletes
** Pakistan football captain Maria Khan signs for Saudi clubDAWN, 13 August 2023 by Umaid Wasim
# Maria Matios

Maria Matios (Ukrainian: Марія Матіос; born on 19 December 1959) is a Ukrainian novelist and poet.

## Quotes

* ⁃ У понеділок? — лінькувато перепитав Цвичок. - Понеділок, ґаздику, тяжкий день. Хоч у узимі, хоч уліті.
** Translation: Monday? Tsvychok asked lazily. – Monday, dear, a difficult day. I want winter, even if it’s summer. So Monday is off.
*** Sweet Darusya: A Tale Of Two Villages, 2019
# Lee Chia-fen

Lee Chia-fen (李佳芬; Lǐ Jiāfēn; born 10 August 1963) is a Taiwanese educator and politician and the wife of Han Kuo-yu.

## Quotes

* It would be the "sin of our generation" if we fail to provide a good environment for our children.
** Lee Chia-fen (2016) cited in "Megaport Festival made mothers cry: Han’s wife" on Taipei Times, 7 October 2019.
# Lee Hong-yuan

Lee Hong-yuan (李鴻源; Lǐ Hóngyuán; born 21 June 1956) is a politician in Taiwan (Republic of China). He was the Minister of the Interior in 6 February 2012 - 25 February 2014.

## Quotes

* You cannot treat badly to your classmate just because his color is different or he is somehow different.
** Lee hong-yuan (2012) cited in "Interview with Lee Hong-yuan (李鴻源), Interior Minister (2012.4.20)" on TRI, 20 April 2012.
* Is it really necessary to have so many municipalities in such a small nation? The key is effective governance.
** Lee hong-yuan (2014) cited in "Ex-minister calls for ‘effective governance’" on Taipei Times, 6 July 2014.