Mariam

“I go to great lengths to be a good mother. I’m constantly revising my attitudes, which detracts from the spontaneity, and I will be judged for it in the future, there’s no doubt. You always do badly as a mother, if not because of this, then because of that. The guilt will always be there, no matter what.”
― Marcela Serrano, Ten Women

“And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“I never dreamed that one day it would be one of my favorite everyday words. Fuck this, fucking that, don’t give a fuck. I love it. It’s perfect for emphasis!”
― Marcela Serrano, Ten Women

“أشعر أحياناً بأنني مُستعملة ، الرجال لا يشعرون أبداً بهذا الشعور لأنهم حتى عندما يُستعملون لا ينتبهون إلى ذلك ويظنون انهم من يَستعملون”
― Marcela Serrano, Diez mujeres