“and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms.”
― The Dream of a Common Language
― The Dream of a Common Language
“شكر خاص
شكرن لنظام المدارس الذي علمني كيفيت الكتابة. ولولاه لما كنت قادر علا كتابت هاذا الكتاب...”
― احتواء: النكبة ساغا وقصص أخرى
شكرن لنظام المدارس الذي علمني كيفيت الكتابة. ولولاه لما كنت قادر علا كتابت هاذا الكتاب...”
― احتواء: النكبة ساغا وقصص أخرى
“While I am sympathetic to the political project of an all-encompassing utopian inclusivity, I am less sanguine about its feasibility and more worried about
its cruelty.”
―
its cruelty.”
―
“Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have a primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each others' sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
Women have often felt insane when cleaving to the truth of our experience. Our future depends on the sanity of each of us, and we have a profound stake, beyond the personal, in the project of describing our reality as candidly and fully as we can to each other.”
― On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
Women have often felt insane when cleaving to the truth of our experience. Our future depends on the sanity of each of us, and we have a profound stake, beyond the personal, in the project of describing our reality as candidly and fully as we can to each other.”
― On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
“يبحث الواحد عن الحب ثم لا يعرف ما الذي يصنع به، تقبض اليد على اليد ثم تخاف ان يقيّدها ما تقبض عليه.”
― حتى أتخلى عن فكرة البيوت
― حتى أتخلى عن فكرة البيوت
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