Mani

“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“قالوا لنا يجب أن ننتصر، على من؟
على الذرة، الفيزياء، الفضاء!!!!
النصر عندنا ليس حدث، بل عملية مستمرة”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“Why were women alone responsible for sheltering men from the sexual desires women supposedly elicited in men? Why could men not control themselves? Why, if men were the ones being tempted, were they not the ones being policed?”
― Mona Eltahawy, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

“I was traumatised into feminism -- there's no other way to describe it”
― Mona Eltahawy, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution