Sara Boudouh

“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“حقا إن الحياة أكذوبة ضخمة.”
― نجيب محفوظ, بداية ونهاية

“سأسافر غداً وتمسون صوراً وزكريات,و ستجتمعون كاجتماعكم هذا, وربما لا تذكرونني إلا قليلا, أو لا تذكرونني بتاتا, ولكن كيف أكون؟ وأين؟
وهل أملك في وحدتي إلا أن أذكركم؟؟ كلما اشتد الدهر ازددت قوة وصبرا, ولأظلن هكذا إلي الأبد!..”
― نجيب محفوظ , بداية ونهاية

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”

So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?

You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations