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Liz Plank
“Benevolent sexism is sort of like the Macarena: you don't remember when you learned it, but for some reason you're really good at it.”
Liz Plank, For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity

Anaïs Nin
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
Anais Nin

Robertson Davies
“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
Robertson Davies

Orhan Pamuk
Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.”
Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City

Elif Shafak
“One of the most notorious slogans of ultra-nationalism in Turkey has been ‘Either love it or leave it!’ It is meant to block all kinds of fault-finding from within. The implication is that if you criticize your country or your state, you are showing disrespect, not to mention a lack of patriotism, in which case you had better take your leave. If you do stay, however, the implication is that you love your homeland, in which case you had better not voice any critical opinions. This black-and-white mentality is an obstacle to social progress. But it is not only Turkish ultra- nationalism that is fuelled by a dualistic mentality. All kinds of extremist, exclusivist discourses are similarly reductionist and sheathed in tautology. Either/or approaches ask us to make a choice, all the while spreading the fallacy that it is not possible to have multiple belongings, multiple roots, multiple loves.”
Elif Shafak, The Happiness of Blond People: A Personal Meditation on the Dangers of Identity

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