Rita Samson

“Among those who have everything, I have never seen a family go to the seashore just to celebrate a political decision, because for them politics changes almost nothing. This is something I realized when I went to live in Paris, far away from you: the ruling class may complain about a left-wing government, they may complain about a right-wing government, but no government ever ruins their digestion, no government ever breaks their backs, no government ever inspires a trip to the beach. Politics never changes their lives, at least not much. What’s strange, too, is that they’re the ones who engage in politics, though it has almost no effect on their lives. For the ruling class, in general, politics is a question of aesthetics: a way of seeing themselves, of seeing the world, of constructing a personality. For us it was life or death.”
― Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“Dromen kunnen je leven veranderen en uiteindelijk ook de wereld. Bevrijding begint met beelden die in je kleine hoofdje dansen, en die beelden kun je vertalen in woorden. En woorden kosten niets!”
― Fatima Mernissi, The Harem Within: Tales of a Moroccan Girlhood

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac