April 2013
23 posts
“A woman should lead her life as a nomad. She should stay alert and be ready to...”
– Fatima Mernissi, Scheherazade Goes West (via lyddawiyya)
Oh Fatima, you are my love. Quotes from the summer reading list.
“Are we willing to countenance the sometimes violent task of remaking...”
– Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety (via faroutinto)
Quotes from the summer reading list.
“My argument is that there cannot be a universal definition of religion, not only...”
– Talal Asad (1993) Genealogies of Religion (p. 29).
Quotes from the summer reading list.
Love you, Asad. Get at me.
“There is no one right way to live.”
– Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (via the-glass-unicorn)
Quotes from the summer reading list.
“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
– Virginia Woolf (via nostorybook)
Quotes from the summer reading list.
thesleepwalkofourlives:
“As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
Quotes from...
March 2013
110 posts
“No need to sparkle. No need to be anyone but oneself.”
– Virginia Woolf (A Room of One’s Own)
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