"Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are good, that you can awaken their generosity and their desire to do better."

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Fatema Mernissi

#Prayer Quotes #Believe Quotes #Communication Quotes

“Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216”
Fatema Mernissi
“By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.”
Fatema Mernissi
“Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.”
Fatema Mernissi
“Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.”
Fatema Mernissi
“Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure for yourself a place there for ever.”
Fatema Mernissi

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