Roba Maher

“Your spirit and mine must have met to comfort each other.!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so hard to believe, so laughable even, that it is easy to shrug off, that's a mistake.
The incel community is the most violent corner of the so-called manosphere. It is a community devoted to violent hatred of women. A community that actively recruits members who might have very real problems and vulnerabilities, and tells them that women are the cause of all their woes. A community in whose name over 100 people, mostly women, have been murdered or injured in the past ten years. And it's a community you have probably never even heard of.”
― Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About

“I began to wonder why i should struggle to stay alive, when i did not want to live.
It was getting dark again, and i was alone on the moor.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“لا شئ أكثر أهمية، بالنسبة لنا، من أن نعيش الحياة التي نختارها بإرادتنا. ولا يعود ذلك إلى أننا نثمن الحرية أكثر مما كان يثمنها الناس في الأزمنة الماضية، بل لأننا ننظر إلى الحياة الطيبة باعتبارها حصرًا الحياة التي نختارها بإرادتنا.
وتعكس ديانة الاختيار تلك حقيقة أننا مجبورون على ارتجال حياتنا. وكوننا لا نستطيع أن نفعل غير ذلك هو الدليل القاطع على افتقارنا الكامل للحرية. لقد غدا الاختيار صنمًا نعبده، بيد أن السمة المميزة للأصنام هي أننا لا نختارها بإرادتنا”
― John Gray, Straw Dogs