Quotes from The Inhabited Woman

“Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman

“النمو في الحياة لا يتم إلا بعبور حدود الشخصية: اكتشاف قدرات يعتقد الواحد منا أنه لا يملكها.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman

“لا بد من تعلّم أن يكون الإنسان رفيقًا طيبًا لنفسه.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman

“Pero Sara no entendería que ella se sintiera tan contenta. no entendía el placer de ser uno mismo, tomar decisiones, tener la vida bajo control. Sara había pasado del padre-padre al padre-marido.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman

“Nadie puede decir cuál habría sido nuestra historia si tanta tribu no hubiese sido aniquilada. Los españoles decían que debían civilizarnos, hacernos abandonar la barbarie. Pero ellos, con barbarie, nos dominaron, nos despoblaron. En pocos años hicieron más sacrificios humanos que nosotros en el tiempo largo que transcurrió desde las primeras festividades.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman

“Nuestra herencia de tambores batientes ha de continuar latiendo en la sangre de estas generaciones.
Es lo único, Yarince, que permaneció: la resistencia.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman

“In any case, if they don't do it to you, they do it to someone else...if you let them do it to others, you become an accomplice, intentionally or not”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman

“كلنا شعرنا بالخوف، ما يهم ليس الإحساس به، بل التغلب عليه.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from The Inhabited Woman

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“پاییز امسال یک کلاغ سپید پیدایش شد. همیشه با کمی فاصله پشت سر بقیه پرواز می‌کند و روی هر درختی بنشیند همجنس‌هایش از آن درخت پرهیز می‌کنند. درک نمی‌کنم که چرا بقیهٔ کلاغ‌ها دوستش ندارند. به چشم من پرنده‌ای به‌خصوص زیباست، ولی برای همجنس‌هایش انزجارانگیز است. می‌بینم که تنها روی کاج خودش چمباتمه می‌زند و به دشت خیره می‌شود؛ بطالتی غمگین که نمی‌باید وجود می‌داشت، کلاغی سپید. آن‌قدر آن‌جا می‌نشیند تا دستهٔ بزرگ کلاغ‌ها پرواز می‌کنند، آن‌وقت من کمی غذا برایش می‌برم. آن‌قدر رام است که می‌توانم نزدیکش شوم. گاهی وقت‌ها تا می‌بیند دارم می‌آیم روی زمین جست و خیز می‌کند. از کجا بداند چرا طرد شده است. زندگی دیگری را نمی‌شناسد و همیشه طردشده باقی خواهد ماند. چنان تنهاست که از آدمیزاد کم‌تر می‌ترسد تا از برادران سیاهش. شاید آن‌قدر از او منزجرند که حتی راضی نیستند با وسوسه منقارشان سوراخ سوراخش کنند. هر روز در انتظار کلاغ سپید می‌نشینم و او را به سوی خود می‌خوانم و او با دقت از میان چشم‌های سرخ‌رنگش براندازم می‌کند. برایش کار چندانی از دستم برنمی‌آید. آشغال‌های من شاید زندگی‌ای را طولانی می‌کنند که نباید طولانی شود. ولی من می‌خواهم کلاغ سپید زنده بماند. گاهی در عالم رؤیا می‌بینم که یک کلاغ سپید دیگر در جنگل هست و آن دو یکدیگر را پیدا خواهند کرد. رؤیایم را باور ندارم، فقط آرزو می‌کنم چنین باشد.”
― Marlen Haushofer, quote from The Wall

“As the months passed, even the strident voices from the newspapers had begun to moderate, and the passion to put Preston’s neck in a noose had become subdued. It was a relief to Adams that with the trial now scheduled for October, he had time to work with Josiah Quincy to prepare a case based on law and reason. And it meant he could spend time with his family and enjoy the wonderful peace of the farm.”
― Jeff Shaara, quote from Rise to Rebellion

“I like to think I'm one of a kind.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Monster in His Eyes

“I knew, for instance, that rooms where people slept exuded peculiarly human smells just as the goat pen smelt goaty and the cattle kraal bovine. It was common knowledge among the younger girls at school that the older girls menstruated into sundry old rags which they washed and reused and washed again. I knew, too, that the fact of menstruation was a shamefully unclean secret that should not be allowed to contaminate immaculate male ears by indiscreet reference to this type of first in their presence.”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga, quote from Nervous Conditions

“When your heart breaks, you should die. But there’s still the rest of you. There’s your breasts, and your genitals, and they’re amazingly stupid, like babies or faithful dogs, they don’t get it, they just want him. Want him.”
― Tony Kushner, quote from Angels in America

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