مُروج أحمد

“Unveiling this woman is revealing her beauty; it is baring her secret, breaking her resistance, making her avail­able for adventure. Hiding the face is also disguising a secret; it is also creating a world of mystery, of the hidden. In a confused way, the European experiences his relation with the Algerian woman at a highly complex level. There is in it the will to bring this woman within his reach, to make her a possible ob­ject of possession.

This woman who sees without being seen frustrates the colo­nizer. There is no reciprocity. She does not yield herself, does not give herself, does not offer herself.”
― Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism

“إنّني أستطيع أن أتحمّل كلّ آلامي الشخصيّة، ولكن آلام الأمّة الإسلاميّة سحقتني!”
― فريد الأنصاري, آخر الفرسان

“...and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it...”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“من ألف الحب بكى
من شفه الشوق شكى
من غاب عنه إلفه
أو صد عنه هلكا
يا مالكا عذبنى
بجوره إن ملك
رفقاً بمملوكك
لا يحل الظلم لك”
― موشح أندلسي