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“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino." - Joe Fox”
― Nora Ephron

“J’allais ouvrir la bouche et aborder cette fille , quand quelqu’un me toucha l’épaule. Je me retournai, surpris, et j’aperçus un homme d’aspect ordinaire, ni jeune ni vieux, qui me regardait d’un air triste.
— Je voudrais vous parler, dit-il.
Je fis une grimace qu’il vit sans doute, car il ajouta :
— « C’est important. »
Je me levai et le suivis à l’autre bout du bateau :
— « Monsieur, reprit-il, quand l’hiver approche avec les froids, la pluie et la neige, votre médecin vous dit chaque jour : « Tenez-vous les pieds bien chauds, gardez-vous des refroidissements, des rhumes, des bronchites, des pleurésies. » Alors vous prenez mille précautions, vous portez de la flanelle, des pardessus épais, des gros souliers, ce qui ne vous empêche pas toujours de passer deux mois au lit. Mais quand revient le printemps avec ses feuilles et ses fleurs, ses brises chaudes et amollissantes, ses exhalaisons des champs qui vous apportent des troubles vagues, des attendrissements sans cause, il n’est personne qui vienne vous dire : « Monsieur, prenez garde à l’amour ! Il est embusqué partout ; il vous guette à tous les coins ; toutes ses ruses sont tendues, toutes ses armes aiguisées, toutes ses perfidies préparées ! Prenez garde à l’amour !… Prenez garde à l’amour ! Il est plus dangereux que le rhume, la bronchite et la pleurésie ! Il ne pardonne pas, et fait commettre à tout le monde des bêtises irréparables. » Oui, monsieur, je dis que, chaque année, le gouvernement devrait faire mettre sur les murs de grandes affiches avec ces mots : « Retour du printemps. Citoyens français, prenez garde à l’amour ; » de même qu’on écrit sur la porte des maisons : « Prenez garde à la peinture ! » — Eh bien, puisque le gouvernement ne le fait pas, moi je le remplace, et je vous dis : « Prenez garde à l’amour ; il est en train de vous pincer, et j’ai le devoir de vous prévenir comme on prévient, en Russie, un passant dont le nez gèle. »
Je demeurai stupéfait devant cet étrange particulier, et, prenant un air digne :
— « Enfin, monsieur, vous me paraissez vous mêler de ce qui ne vous regarde guère. »
Il fit un mouvement brusque, et répondit :
— « Oh ! monsieur ! monsieur ! si je m’aperçois qu’un homme va se noyer dans un endroit dangereux, il faut donc le laisser périr ?”
― Guy de Maupassant

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
― Ellen Goodman

“Finding The Man. Keeping The Man. Not scaring The Man, building up The Man, following The Man, soothing The Man, flattering The Man, deferring to The Man, changing your judgement for The Man, changing your decisions for The Man, polishing floors for The Man, being perpetually conscious of your appearance for The Man, being romantic for The Man, hinting to The Man, losing yourself in The Man. 'I never had a thought that wasn't yours.' Sob, sob. Whenever I act like a human being, they say, 'What are you getting upset about?' They say: of course you'll get married. They say: of course you're brilliant. They say: of course you'll get a PhD and then sacrifice it to have babies. They say: if you don't, you're the one who'll have two jobs and you can make a go of it if you're exceptional, which very few women are, and if you find a very understanding man. As long as you don't make more money than he does. How do they expect me to live all this junk?”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

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

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“But by far the worst thing we do to males—by making them feel they have to be hard—is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“The sad truth of the matter is that when it comes to appearance, we start off with men as the standard, as the norm. Many of us think that the less feminine a woman appears, the more likely she is to be taken seriously. A man going to a business meeting doesn’t wonder about being taken seriously based on what he is wearing—but a woman does.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a taste for more refined pleasures; he has never felt the calm and refreshing satisfaction. . . .of being loved by someone who could understand him.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics

“As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

“Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women are insatiable. We are greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in place. If the world were ours too, if we believed we could get away with it, we would ask for more love, more sex, more money, more commitment to children, more food, more care. These sexual, emotional, and physical demands would begin to extend to social demands: payment for care of the elderly, parental leave, childcare, etc. The force of female desire would be so great that society would truly have to reckon with what women want, in bed and in the world.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”
― Erin McKean

“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”
― Woody Allen

“Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled by him, but from under his arm to be protected by him, near to his heart to be loved by him.”
― Matthew Henry, An exposition of the Old and New Testament Volume 6

“This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's not friendship. He felt he had been hustled into a game of complicity, one he never intended to play.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“physics can be taught , love cant , learn it while you can , earn it when ever possible .”
― ganeshsaidheeraj

“لم يطعني أحد في ظهري
لطالما سددوا إلى قلبي جميع أسلحتهم الحادة
وهم ينظرون مباشرة إلى عيني بكل قسوة”
― أسماء الجلاصي Asma Jelassi

“تصوَّر أنني أُحبُّك - والله أُحبُّك -
بهذا الشكل العفوي
وأنا أشقُّ برتقالةً نصفَينِ... أتذكّرك
وأنا أعبر الشارع نحو الرصيف المقابل... أتذكّرك
وأنا أضع طلاء أظافري الأحمر البرّاق... أتذكّرك
وأنا أُمرِّر يدي فوق رؤوس الأطفال... أتذكّرك
وأنا أقف أمام البحر الهائل الزُّرقة... أتذكّرك
وأنا أختار أثاث البيت... أتذكّرك
وأنا أُغلِّف هدايا العيد... أتذكّرك
وأنا أستيقظ صباحاً... أتذكّرك
إييييه يا صديقي؛
البنت المُتوجِّسة خيفةً من زمن سيء؛
تُحبُّكَ الآن .”
― Nour Albawardi, النصف المضيء من الباب الموارب

“كثيــراً جداً ما سألت نفســـي عن ســر إغترابي النفســـي و نقصان طمأنينتي في المناسبات الإجتماعية. و دائمــاً ما كنتُ أقول في وحدتـــي لنفسي أني أبدو وحيـــداً كـــشجرة تفـــاح نبتت وسط الصحـــراء و كــم دعوت الله أن أكــون شجــرة صبار نبتت وسط الصبــار.”
― Mohammed Alamin, ما فعلته الحياة بالولد المسكين

“منذ ابتداء الدهر إلى أيامنا هذه والفئة المتمسكة بالشرف الموروث تتحالف وتتفق مع الكهان ورؤساء الأديان على الشعب . هي علة مزمنة قابضة بأظافرها على عنق الجامعة البشرية ولن تزول إلا بزوال الغباوة من هذا العالم عندما يصير عقل كل رجل ملكا ويصبح قلب كل امرأة كاهناً”
― جبران خليل جبران, الأرواح المتمردة

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir