Ghada Marwan

“Nothing makes sense, why should I?”
― Suad Amiry, Nothing to Lose But Your Life: An 18-Hour Journey With Murad

“Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.”
― John Donne, The Complete English Poems

“I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage -- the surest means to success, the surest course to failure. (p. 72)”
― Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl