“You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenBookFacesWaitingWallCellsBeaten Author:Ahdaf Soueif
“She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .” ThinkingMatterCoursesDarkAirCornersGrantedCoatsCupboards Author:Ahdaf Soueif
