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“ماذا أكتب عن هذا الموضوع؟ لأنه وباختصار ترن كلمة "عيب" وتنخر في رؤوسنا بل في أجسادنا لتجعلنا عبدة الخوف من الكلمة والأحكام التي ستُطلق علينا... لأنها تعرقل كل خطوة نحاول أن نأخذها عكس تيار المجتمع، لأن المجتمع يطلب ويقول لكل امرأة وحتى فتاة "تحدّثي دائماً بصوت يكاد أن يكون مسموعاً، فصوتك عورة... وضحكتك عورة...ورأيك احتفظي فيه لنفسك معظم الأحيان... ومطالبتك لحريتك تعني أنك مسترجلة..." كل هذه الأصوات هي التي جعلت من صوتي في كلماتي أعلى... لأنني وجدت في الكتابة مسرحي، وأرفض أن أدع أي من آفات المجتمع تلويث هذا المسرح. قد يجادل البعض ويقول بأن الوقت تغير، والمرأة لم تعد كما كانت، ولكنني بثقة أقول لا إن الزمن لم يتغير، ربّما تغير للبعض، ولكن إذا وسعنا نطاق رؤيتنا لتشمل أبعد من حدود محيطنا لأدركنا جيداً بأن الكثير من العيب لم يتغير بعد، وإن كان قد تغير (لغرض الحوار فقط) فهنالك أمر هام يجب أخذه بعين الاعتبار، وهو الآثار السلبية التي تتركها كلمة "عيب" في نفسية الكثير من نساء المجتمع ولا أقول هذا تخميناً بل عن تجربة شخصية... تجربة صراع الذات ما بين ثقافة العيب... والأنا.”

“If I had a daughter, here's what I'd tell her: One day, when you've worked hard for what you want, when people see that you are confident and intelligent and that you recognize your own self-worth, when you take care of yourself, support yourself, and stand up for yourself, that is the day that the world will call you "a cruel and selfish bitch." It's a tough title to earn and you should be and proud of it.”

“Look, you had it easier than me,' she says. 'You think Nana and Papa were busy supporting women's rights? No, they wanted me to meet a nice man and get married and cook and clean for him and give them grandchildren, and that's it. You were born into a world where feminism existed and was readily available to you. I had to acquire that knowledge. I didn't know I could be on my own.”

“If Grandmother were still here, this trip wouldn't have been the disappointment I felt it was. She would have known what I needed. She had raised six children, with the help of the servants, mind you, but still, six children. I had two girls now; I couldn't imagine any more. Grandmother's strength and wisdom were undefeatable in an age that had taxed women in so many ways; I couldn't even begin to imagine how many.”

“Burung tak sempat bertanya Apakah dirinya merdu Apa itu yang bernyanyi menembus awan Dan mengantar hujan Ia hanya terbang, merajut cinta dengan daun dan musim Hingga semua telinga terjaga oleh kebenaran suaranya Kupu-kupu tak dapat bertanya Apakah dirinya indah Apa itu yang membentang megah Menggoda hutan untuk menawan cahaya bintang Ia hanya hinggap, merajut cinta dengan dengan embun dan bunga Hingga semua mata terpesona akan kecantikan sayapnya Bunga tak sanggup bertanya Apakah dirinya wangi Apa itu yang meruap, memenuhi udara dan Melahirkan kehidupan Ia hanya tumbuh, merajut cinta dengan liur dan madu Hingga alam raya terselimuti harum dan warna Yang tak pernah diduganya Seorang laki-laki tak kuasa bertanya Mengapa perempuan ada Siapa itu yang berdiam dalam keanggunan Tanpa perlu mengucap apa-apa Ialah puisi yang merajut cinta dengan bumi dan rahasia Hingga semua jiwa bergetar saat pulang ke pelukannya”

“The humble woman is surprised by all the good that she sees around her rather than scandalized by what she cannot judge anyway. The humble woman is grateful for her successes but not disheartened by her failures. She enjoys her gifts and readily admits her mistakes. She maintains a sense of humor, whether the news from Wall Street is giddy or glum. She faces her character defects without getting discouraged. Her humble confidence in God’s love and her enchantment with the kabod Yahweh shape a hedge of thorns against self-absorption and frees her for an unselfconscious presence to others.”

“Somehow, as we made our entrance into the realm of young womanhood, we began to lose power. Fascinating research on girlhood is happening these days. It confirms that young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.”

“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.”

“Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts”

“A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.”

“After walking up one of the steepest streets in the Village of Überlingen, I found Herr Graf at the municipal hospital and was shocked to see how severe his burns were. He was in a dreadful state and obviously appeared to be in great pain. Although his heavy woolen police uniform had warded off burns to his body, his face and hands were badly scorched. The hospital was understaffed for the number of casualties they had to care for, so he asked me if I could come to feed and care for him occasionally. Of course I agreed, even though I knew that for each visit I would have to trudge up the same very long steep hill to get there. Seeing him suffering and in such pain, I felt that this was the least I could do; besides I was now moving into his apartment…. With great difficulty he handed me the key and asked if I could try to locate his teenage son, who had most likely been captured by the Allies. On the way back, my reward was that it was downhill with a beautiful view of the distant Alps. Besides, it was a much easier walk!”

“Because of the many casualties that had happened in homemade bunkers, we were warned to no longer use them. We were told that the homemade shelter we had laboriously constructed in the basement of our building was useless and now could not even give us the illusion of being a safe haven. Instead a massive new suburban air raid shelter had been built of reinforced concrete, which was eleven feet thick in places. The structure was near the tram stop where the Feudenheimer Strasse became the Haupt Strasse or Main Street. Even with a war going on with lives at stake, Nazi style commercialism was alive and well, as we rented a room in this nearby bunker for six Reichmarks a night. At the time $1 = RM 2.50. The small room had four beds and we were told to be there prior to 18:00 hours or six o’clock in the evening. Concussions from the bombs were of primary concern and everything was designed to minimize their effect. The pathway to the entrance of this bunker was a zigzagged concrete walk protected by sandbags, as this helped to reduce the concussion from an air blast. Tall bushes and grass as well as riverweed, were planted strategically to absorb the bomb bursts from across the river.”

“The women of Juarez, and women across the world, do not want to have to take revenge, any more than Procne and Philomela did. What they want is to be able to rely on the modern gods -- the police, the courts, and the media -- for justice.”

“A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy' Albert Einstein”