Nawel Mahmoudi Quotes & Sayings

I keep cutting. For him. For me. For ruining lives.
Apparently, I'm good at that. — Andrea Randall

Restrepo. It's a miraculous kind of antiparadise up here: heat and dust and tarantulas and flies and no women and no running water and no cooked food and nothing to do but kill and wait. — Anonymous

You've followed Malexia for years. You have done terrible things. So, if as you say, you have a will of your own, did you do those things because you were ordered, or did you do them of your own free will? — T.T. Escurel

The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls "the angel in the house." She is that little ghost who sits on one's shoulder while one writes and whispers, "Be nice, don't say anything that will embarrass the family, don't say anything your man will disapprove of ... " [ellipsis in original] The "angel in the house" castrates one's creativity because it deprives one of essential honesty, and many women writers have yet to win the freedom to be honest with themselves. — Erica Jong

People who've come out of socialism are both like and unlike the rest of humanity - we have our own lexicon, our own conceptions of good and evil, our heroes, our martyrs. We have a special relationship with death. The stories people tell me are full of jarring terms: "shoot," "execute," "liquidate," "eliminate," or typically Soviet varieties of disappearance such as "arrest," "ten years without the right of correspondence,"*2 and "emigration." How — Svetlana Alexievich

I was proud of my Soviet country, of wearing Young Pioneer uniform, bombarded by my mother's Communist propaganda. — Roustam Tariko