Marianinna

“Don’t rush to conclusions…With someone like me, you need to be cautious.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat

“I don’t think I would have loved her so much if she had loved me back.”
― Sabahattin Ali

“but a real man…a man who could sweep me off my feet without resorting to brute strength…without asking anything of me, without controlling me, or degrading me, a man who could love me and walk by my side…In other words, a truly powerful man, a real man…”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat

“Do you know why I hate you? You and every other man in the world? Because you ask so much of us, as if it were your natural right…Mark my words, for it can happen without a single word being uttered…it’s how men look at us and smile at us. It’s how they raise their hands. To put it simply, it’s how they treat us…you’d have to be blind not to see how much confidence they have, and how stupidly they achieve it. And if you need a measure of their arrogant pride, all you need is to see how shocked they are when an advance is rejected. They are the hunters, you see. And we their miserable prey. And our duties? To bow down and obey, and give them whatever they want…But we shouldn’t. We shouldn’t give away a single bit of ourselves. It’s revolting, this arrogant male pride…Do you understand what I’m saying?”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat