"You know, I've been thinking: all the women……" — Ahdaf Soueif
"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--"
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12 Quotes by Ahdaf Soueif
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Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her…
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And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her…
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It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone…
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She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course…
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I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you…
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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it…
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I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and…
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But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you…
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If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
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Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And…
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