Susanne Pari > Quotes

“This new male generation, Yusef thought, with its power-bar lunches, vibrating pocket gadgets, and diaper-changing skills, had no sense of architectural aesthetics.”
― Susanne Pari, In the Time of our History

“There were things women were better at than men; home was one of them. They carried it with them like an ancestral perfume.”
― Susanne Pari, In the Time of our History

“Eleanor Roosevelt said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ’ Is this not brilliant? I am going to be like Eleanor Roosevelt with your father.”
― Susanne Pari, In the Time of our History

“He hoped he had nurtured her long enough, that she perceived all that he valued: the lure of Telling and the delirium of Remembering, the addiction of Uncovering and the libation of Testimony.”
― Susanne Pari, In the Time of Our History

“An ox is born and bred to carry our burdens. A saint is like an ox.”
― Susanne Pari, In the Time of our History

“the Writers have been hunted and silenced by the cowards who seek power.”
― Susanne Pari, In the Time of our History

“I believe we all belong to a larger thing. If you wish, you can call it God, but God is different from religion.”
― Susanne Pari, In the Time of Our History

“Shireen had drunk Olga’s praise and respect like a suckling infant, but of course the quench was never permanent. Like a barren woman—like Olga and poor Mitra—Shireen couldn’t make her own milk.”
― Susanne Pari, In the Time of our History

“Autocracies survive when they can control the substance and flow of information to their citizens. This requires a ruthless vigilance to silence intellectuals and creatives.”
― Susanne Pari, In the Time of our History

“In the end, a woman is better off being admired for her dignity than for her appeal to men or the appraisal of women.”
― Susanne Pari, In the Time of our History

“The candlelight gave everything an intimate glow. He hadn’t had this - a family sitting around a table -since his adolescence, before his grandmother died and his mother began going on assignment more often, leaving him and his grandfather lost without their women. There were things women were better at than men; home was one of them. He and his grandfather could build cozy fires in the hearth and arrange tulips in vases and keep the house as neat as a pin, but none of this could replace the virtual embrace their hearts felt when his mother was home.”
― Susanne Pari, In the Time of Our History