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“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― The Robber Bride
― The Robber Bride
“Gittikçe daha iyi anlaşılıyordu ki Anadolu’da yapılan iş, yalnız vatanı düşmandan kurtarmak boğuşması değildi. Bunun bir başka anlamı, bir başka amacı olmalıydı. Eğer harekete bu başka anlam verilmez, boğuşma bir başka amaca yöneltilmezse, savaşı kazanmanın bile hiç değeri kalmayacak, orada bugün ölenler yarın ölecekler, tıpkı bunlardan önce yıllar yılı, bazı yenmiş, bazı yenilmiş olarak can verenler gibi kaynayıp gideceklerdi. Pisi pisine... Bedavaya... Kirli bir hizmetin adi bahşişi gibi...”
― Esir Şehrin İnsanları
― Esir Şehrin İnsanları
“All lovers believe they are inventing love.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet
“We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present. We do not have to suffer the waste of an amnesia that robs us of the lessons of the past rather than permit us to read them with pride as well as deep understanding. We know what it is to be lied to, and we know how important it is not lie to ourselves. We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about—survival and growth.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“One sort of optional thing you might do is to realize there are six seasons instead of four. The poetry of four seasons is all wrong for this part of the planet, and this may explain why we are so depressed so much of the time. I mean, Spring doesn’t feel like Spring a lot of the time, and November is all wrong for Fall and so on. Here is the truth about the seasons: Spring is May and June! What could be springier than May and June? Summer is July and August. Really hot, right? Autumn is September and October. See the pumpkins? Smell those burning leaves. Next comes the season called “Locking.” That is when Nature shuts everything down. November and December aren’t Winter. They’re Locking. Next comes Winter, January and February. Boy! Are they ever cold! What comes next? Not Spring. Unlocking comes next. What else could April be?”
― If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
― If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
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