Mariam

“Not for you,” Lila replies ardently, “you’re my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Perhaps the solution is to have a little project every day. If there’s no reason for you to get up in the morning it really doesn’t matter if you are alive or dead.”
― 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

“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