Amal Awad > Quotes

“I don’t think I expect much from the world, until Palestinian interests align with superpowers' interests, we are not going to get much. So, focus on the little things, what can I as a person do? How can I change somebody’s life? How can I influence somebody’s perception of who Palestinians are? What we are all about?”
― Amal Awad, Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women

“It’s very nice to have a cup of coffee with a friend and you just pour your heart out and you know that it’s in a sacred place.”
― Amal Awad, Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women

“I’m with equality. If that’s how you want to talk to me, that’s how I’m going to talk to you.”
― Amal Awad, Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women

“You can choose what your life looks like.’ ‘Yeah. Which is not common here. Because the expectations are very limiting, it’s almost like you don’t have a choice.”
― Amal Awad, Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran”
― Amal Awad, Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women

“The Middle East is anything but ‘one size fits all’.”
― Amal Awad, Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women

“I am not what happened to me.
I am what I choose to become. – Carl Jung”
― Amal Awad, Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women

“When you’re married.’ Arguably this phrase, as innocuous as it seems, is the worst one to be handed when you’ve asked permission for something”
― Amal Awad, Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women