“Why is the word ‘settled’ synonymous with fixedness? Doesn’t settling down signify that you are content with your life? I’m content with my life at this point, and therefore, I feel settled.”
Source: The Full Circle
“Some regard the settlement enterprise as vital for security. 189 Whatever the motive, it is unacceptable to pursue this aim through a strategy of seeking to dominate Palestinians, maintaining a discriminatory system, and engaging in tactics that either have an insufficient security justification or otherwise violate international law. An intent to ensure security neither negates an intent to dominate, nor grants a carte blanche to undertake policies that go beyond what international law permits. While security grounds can justify a range of restrictive measures under international humanitarian and human rights law, a strategy that seeks to promote security by ensuring the demographic advantage of one group of people through discrimination or oppression has no basis under international law.”
Source: A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
“There is a reason the remote Pacific was the last place on Earth to be settled by humans: it was the most difficult, more daunting even than the deserts or the ice.”
Source: Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
“God’s word is settled in heaven forever; it takes faith to settle yours”
Source: Wells of inspiration: Sage's Secret
“Her mate had a girlfriend. Or at least he was sexually active. Or … just really into people swinging from the ceiling? She didn’t understand what the weird text was about. Maybe it was a settlement thing. Maybe the ceiling-swinging was a settlement thing too.”
Source: Tourner
“If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability?”
Source: Taqwacores: A Novel
“The niqab represents a bizarre reverence for the disappearance of women. It puts on a pedestal a woman who covers her face, who erases herself, and it considers that erasure the pinnacle of piety.”
Source: Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
“Sob aqueles véus negros parece não haver mais mulheres de carne e osso. Parecem pássaros negros, misteriosos, inabordáveis.”
Source: O Mundo de Aisha: A revolução silenciosa das mulheres no Iêmen
“Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.”
Source: The Faraway Nearby
“J’ai porté le voile intégral en reportage lorsque je n’avais pas le choix. Dès que je le mettais, j’avais l’impression de disparaître, d’être dépouillée de mon identité. Je déteste la burqa ou le niqab. Le voile intégral est encombrant, étouffant, humiliant.”
Source: Partir pour raconter