Fatma Ben Salem > Fatma's Quotes

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine Albright

“He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.”
― George Carlin

“الدول الخرساء هى التى عندما تتكلم تصرخ..

والشعوب الخاضعة هى التى عندما تثور لا تغفر أبدا!”
― إبراهيم عيسى

“أخشى أن أطلق رصاصة السؤال
فتقتلني رصاصة الإجابة!”
― شهرزاد الخليج

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
― Cheris Kramarae

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”
― Roseanne Barr

“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
― Betty Friedan

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
― George Carlin

“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“- ان هذا "الاحتقار" للنثر يدفع ببعض كتابنا الى صنع طائرة شراعية يسمونها "قصيدة". كأن المشكلة تكمن في التسمية, و انا شخصيا لا اعرف لماذا لا يكون النثر احيانا و غالبنا اروع من الشعر, و هل من الضروري ان يقطع الكاتب سطوره الى انصاف ثم يطلع عليها اسم الشعر ؟ و هل تستطيع التسمية ان تعطي الشعر صفة النثر او النثر صفة الشعر؟ اذا كان الامر كذلك فكيف استحق ماركس و انغلز كل ذلك المجد مع ان "البيان الشيوعي" ليس قصيدة؟”
― غسان كنفاني, أم سعد

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“أنا الأول , وأنا الآخر
أنا البغي , وأنا القديسة
أنا الزوجة , وأنا العذراء
أنا الأم , وأنا الابنة
أنا العاقر , وكثر هم أبنائي
أنا في عرس كبير ولم أتخذ زوجاً
أنا القابلة ولم أنجب أحداً
وأنا سلوة أتعاب حملي
أنا العروس وأنا العريس
وزوجي من أنجبني
أنا أم أبي , وأخت زوجي
وهو من نسلي”
― فراس السواح, لغز عشتار: الألوهة المؤنثة وأصل الدين والأسطورة

“الحقيقة التاريخية أن "السجن" في عهود الظلمة والفسدة والطواغيت لم يكن سوى مأوى "العظماء" و "النبلاء" .. بدءًا من "يوسف عليه السلام" ومرورًا بـ "أحمد بن حنبل" و "ابن تيمية" وانتهاءً بـ "سيد قطب" و "علي عزت بيجوفيتش" ..”
― محمد وفيق زين العابدين

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen