Safa Bader

“الموت موتان : موت ننزله بالغير ، و موت ينزله الغير بنا . موت نحيا به ، و موت يحيا بنا . حتى الموت في حاجة إلى الحياة . إذ لا حياة للموت إلا بالحياة . و لولاها لما كان .”
― Mikhail Naimy, مذكرات الأرقش

“كما يكون الإنسان تكون الطبيعة من حوله. فمن جملتْ حياته وصفَت أفكاره رأى الطبيعة جميلة وصافية. ومن قبحت حياته وتشوّشت أفكاره رأى الطبيعة قبيحة ومشوشة.
لذلك فمفتاح الطبيعة ليس في الطبيعة عينها بل في الإنسان نفسه. وذلك المفتاح هو المعرفة. من شاء أن يعرف الطبيعة فليعرف نفسه اولاً. ومن شاء أن يكون سيد الطبيعة فليكن سيّد نفسه.”
― ميخائيل نعيمه, مذكرات الأرقش

“We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don’t teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.


PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem