Zain

“Allen Ginsberg to Peter Orlovsky— 1958

Tho I long for the actual sunlight contact between us I miss you like a home. Shine back honey & think of me.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“A successful prostitute was better than a misled saint. All women are victims of deception. Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.”
― Nawal El-Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“إننا لا نعرف الصواب إلا من خلال الخطأ، ليس في الخطأ ضعف أو غباء ولكن الاستمرار في الخطأ هو الضعف وهو الغباء.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, مذكرات طبيبة

“Ever since I was a child I used to hear my father say: ‘If the price we pay for freedom is high, we pay a much higher price if we accept to be slaves.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words