Basma

“She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She’d never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn’t a matter of pride, I think. She just did what seemed natural to her.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“تعلمت منها الشجاعة و القوة و الإرادة و الكرامة البشرية التي تدفع الإنسان بإتجاه إنسانيته، وفي احلك الظروف و اكثرها هولا. علمتني مليكة ان الامل و الايمان بالحياة يمكنهما ان يزحزحا الجبال عن اماكنهاو يدفعا البشر الى حفر انفاق بأيديهم”
― ميشال فيتوسي

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero