Mariam > Mariam 's Quotes

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“Not for you,” Lila replies ardently, “you’re my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Let's write one together,” Lila said once, and that filled me with joy.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Women among women know how not to feel alone.”
― Marcela Serrano, Diez mujeres

“I never dreamed that one day it would be one of my favorite everyday words. Fuck this, fucking that, don’t give a fuck. I love it. It’s perfect for emphasis!”
― Marcela Serrano, Ten Women

“أشعر أحياناً بأنني مُستعملة ، الرجال لا يشعرون أبداً بهذا الشعور لأنهم حتى عندما يُستعملون لا ينتبهون إلى ذلك ويظنون انهم من يَستعملون”
― Marcela Serrano, Diez mujeres

“the only truth is that every human being is a small island. You can build bridges, but you’ll always be an island and everything else is a lie.”
― Marcela Serrano, Ten Women

“Perhaps the solution is to have a little project every day. If there’s no reason for you to get up in the morning it really doesn’t matter if you are alive or dead.”
― Marcela Serrano, Ten Women

“I go to great lengths to be a good mother. I’m constantly revising my attitudes, which detracts from the spontaneity, and I will be judged for it in the future, there’s no doubt. You always do badly as a mother, if not because of this, then because of that. The guilt will always be there, no matter what.”
― Marcela Serrano, Ten Women

“مش كفاية انك تبني حاجة جميلة. المهم انك تحافظ على جمالها.”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح

“والله إحنا مصيبتنا سودة، على الأقل أمهاتنا كانوا فاهمين وضعهم، أما إحنا، إحنا ضايعين. لا إحنا فاهمين إذا كنّا حريم ولا مش حريم. إن كان الحب حلال ولا حرام. أهلنا بيقولوا حرام وراديو الحكومة طول الليل والنهار بيغني للحب والكتب بتقول للبنت روحتي انت حرة، وان صدقت البنت تبقى مصيبة، تبقى سمعتها زفت وهباب.. بالذمة دا وضع؟ بالذمة احنا مش غلابة؟!”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح

“ولكنها شعرت فجأة برغبة شبيهة برغبة القطة الصغيرة التي تبحث عن الدفء. أرادت أن يدللها أحد، وأن يربت على كتفها، وأن يمسح شعرها، وأن يقول لها من جديد انها جميلة.”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح

“أنا أحببتك حقّا

إنّما لست أدري

أنا .. أم أنت الضحيّة ؟”
― أمل دنقل

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray