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“Why didn’t you stay?’ she has whispered against the unyielding stone. Why didn’t you stay? She pressed the berry against her lips. Why didn’t I ask you just one more time to stay.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

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“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
― Sojourner Truth

tags: feminism

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“How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

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“ياوطني أريد أن أراني فيك ، لم أرى في عينيك الغرباء”
― ليلى المطوع

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“It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!”
― Eugene O'Neill

tags: belonging, death, home, outsider

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