Eman

“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.”
― Frida Kahlo

“لا تصالح علي الدم .. حتي بدم!
لا تصالح! و لو قيل رأس برأس
أكل الرؤوس سواء؟
أقلب الغريب كقلب أخيك؟!
أعيناه عينا أخيك؟
و هل تساوي يد ... سيفها كان لك
بيد سيفها أثكلك؟”
― أمل دنقل, أمل دنقل: الأعمال الكاملة

“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
― Frida Kahlo

“حين ينتهي الحُب , أَدرك انه لم يكن حُباً
الحبّ لا بد أن يُعاش , لا أن يُتذَكر!”
― محمود درويش