Status Updates From Esir Kuşun Şarkısı

“‘Nothing’s enough. Do what you can.’”

I don’t think I agree but the argument that outdated and sexist customs are better than adopting colonizers’ customs is interesting

“‘An artist should expand her education beyond her own discipline, but such an education doesn’t come easily to everyone, and to most women it doesn’t come at all.’”

“‘I could live for them or I could live for myself. The choice wasn’t hard.’”

“He’s reached beyond his limits by courting me, but he would never again move beyond them. I now realized that even our marriage, his one great rebellion, had been a concession to his mother‘s will.”

“Most often they were too stunned or too scared to do anything but submit, but however dim or precise their knowledge of sex, they were all intimate with shame, and so they closed their eyes and they waited.”

“The more I read, the more I longed to let loose the words inside me.”

The way my stomach SANK