

“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Educated
― Educated

“I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“I was traumatised into feminism -- there's no other way to describe it”
― Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
― Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn鈥檛 a demon: it was me.”
― Educated
― Educated

“My mind was once diseased with the strange and heady ambition that I might somehow improve the world by living in it.”
― Gutshot
― Gutshot

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