“No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“If you're Native American and you pray to the wolves, you're a savage. If you're African and you pray to your ancestors, you're a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that's just common sense.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“اننا نتدلل فقط ليس على من نحبهم وإنما على من نؤمن انهم يحبوننا”
― البيضاء
― البيضاء
“La littérature, il me semble, est tournée vers ce qui a disparu, ou bien ce qui aurait pu advenir et n'est pas advenu, voilà pourquoi les temps modernes, si épris d'un advenir sans mémoire, lui sont si hostiles.”
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