I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time – the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. – Elizabeth Berkley
No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than Flashdance. After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the Maniac thing. – Elizabeth Berkley
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl. – Elizabeth Berkley
Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, its not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, its girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it. – Elizabeth Berkley
Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized school and healthcare are free. And we dont differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that. – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way were running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well. – Simon Mainwaring
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities… the list goes on! – Frances OGrady