Quotes - Yasmine El-deeb Showing 1-10 of 10

#1

“إن الكلمات إذا رفعت سيفاً ، فهي السيف .”
― صلاح عبد الصبور, مأساة الحلاج

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#2

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance

5380 likes

#4

“ - يعني لسه بتحبني ؟
- على فكرة أنا مش مؤمن بمبدأ السؤال ده .
- ليه ؟
- دا سؤال لفظي .. إحنا بنحس الحب زي ما بنحس الخوف والفرح والكره .. فعشان تعرفي إذا كنت لسه بحبك واللا لأ إسألي نفسك .. ”
― يوسف إدريس

tags: يوسف-إدريس-الحب

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#5

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

3058 likes

#6

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#7

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

tags: books, metaphor, soul

5697 likes

#8

“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: love, poetry, women

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#9

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women

2619 likes

#10

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: arrogance, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, men, self-importance, women

1840 likes

#11

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: obsession

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