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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9dd5c21 | The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 08851b0 | I am just as human as the man. | feminism humanity male | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 2830afe | It was not a physical fatigue--he went to the gym regularly and felt better than he had in years--but a draining lassitude that numbed the margins of his mind. He got up and went out to the verandah; the sudden hot air, the roar of his neighbor's generator, the smell of diesel exhaust fumes brought a lightness to his head. Frantic winged insects flitted around the electric bulb. He felt, looking out at the muggy darkness farther away, as if.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 05df121 | We should not be asking whether a woman can "do it all" but how best to support parents in their dual duties at work and at home" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6540b61 | Ojiugo wore orange lipstick and ripped jeans, spoke bluntly, and smoked in public, provoking vicious gossip and dislike from other girls, not because she did these things but because she dared to without having lived abroad, or having a foreign parent, those qualities that would have made them forgive her lack of conformity. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e165bc8 | The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina. Cooking is learned. Cooking--domestic work in general--is a life skill that both men and women should ideally have. It is also a skill that can elude both men and women. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e70f4ed | Hay gente que pregunta: "?Por que usar la palabra "feminista"? ?Por que no decir simplemente que crees en los derechos humanos o algo parecido?". Pues porque no seria honesto. Esta claro que el feminismo forma parte de los derechos humanos en general, pero elegir usar la expresion generica "derechos humanos" supone negar el problema especifico y particular del genero. Es una forma de fingir que no han sido las mujeres quienes se han visto e.. | derechos-humanos feminismo human-rights women-s-rights | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 4fd32f5 | Each time they ignore me, I feel invisible. I want to tell them that I am just as human as the man, just as worthy of acknowledgement. These are the little things, but sometimes it is the little things that sting the most. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 17181c6 | There were people who were born with an inability to be tangled up in dark emotions, in complications, and Iloba was one of them. For such people, Obinze felt both admiration and boredom. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d891161 | Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. She would sink into moodiness, and snap at Obinze, or be distant. And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6150190 | It puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women, or did they just learn to shield their personal regrets, to suspend their lives, subsume themselves in child care? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2159c55 | Because you are a girl' is never a reason for anything. Ever. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3416c4f | There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 14afbfe | When we say fathers are "helping," we are suggesting that child care is a mother's territory, into which fathers valiantly venture. It is not." | gender parenting | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| ec794a7 | She will listen to BBC radio and hear the accounts of the deaths and the riots - "religious with undertones of ethnic tension" the voice will say. And she will fling the radio to the wall and a fierce red rage will run through her at how it has all been packaged and sanitized and made to fit into so few words, all those bodies." | bbc | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 39e7270 | Encourage her to speak her mind, to say what she really thinks, to speak truthfully. And then praise her when she does. Praise her especially when she takes a stand that is difficult or unpopular because it happens to be her honest position. Tell her that kindness matters. Praise her when she is kind to other people. But teach her that her kindness must never be taken for granted. Tell her that she too deserves the kindness of others. Teach.. | feminism | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 48c0c62 | Que hacer? ?Que direccion dar a la vida? - se preguntaba con angustia. Y la gente, las cosas, el sol, le parecian sin realidad ante el problema planteado en su cerebro. | Pío Baroja | ||
| 114a1a3 | Uno tiene la angustia, la desesperacion de no saber que hacer con la vida, de no tener un plan, de encontrarse perdido, sin brujula, sin luz a donde dirigirse. ?Que se hace con la vida? ?Que direccion se le da? Si la vida fuera tan fuerte que le arrastrara a uno, el pensar seria una maravilla, algo como para el caminante detenerse y sentarse a la sombra de un arbol, algo como penetrar en un oasis de paz; pero la vida es estupida, sin emocio.. | Pío Baroja | ||
| 03c4923 | I have written various words, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, and bits of dismantled sentences, fragments of expressions and descriptions and all kinds of tentative combinations. Every now and again I pick up one these particles, these molecules of texts, hold it up to the light and examine it carefully, turn it in various directions, lean forward and rub or polish it, hold it up to the light again, rub it again slightly, then lean forward .. | Amos Oz | ||
| bcc7bd2 | Era talvez meu habito 'profissional' de colocar-me no lugar, ou na pele, dos outros. Isso nao significa que sempre justifico esses outros, mas que tenho a capacidade de enxergar seus pontos de vista p. 95. | Amos Oz | ||
| 8566f23 | To be honest, I was sometimes even jealous of those starving children in India, because nobody ever told them to finish up everything on their plate. | Amos Oz | ||
| 4281bd8 | books standing up and other books lying down on top of them; plump, resplendent foreign books stretching themselves comfortably, and other wretched books that peered at you from cramped and crowded conditions, lying like illegal immigrants crowded on bunks aboard ship. Heavy, respectable books in gold-tooled leather bindings, and thin books bound in flimsy paper, splendid portly gentlemen and ragged, shabby beggars, and all around and among.. | Amos Oz | ||
| 3b11327 | books that Uncle bought in Odessa or acquired in Heidelberg, books that he discovered in Lausanne or found in Berlin or Warsaw, books he ordered from America and books the like of which exist nowhere but in the Vatican Library, in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, classical and modern Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, medieval Arabic, Russian, English, German, Spanish, Polish, French, Italian, and languages and dialects I had never even heard of, like Ugariti.. | Amos Oz | ||
| f575165 | I read your poems with interest and found them serious, original, linguistically fresh, but first of all you must learn to curb your excess of emotion and write with more distance. As if you the person writing the poems and you the suffering young man are two different people, and as though the former observes the latter coolly, distantly, even with a measure of amusement. | Amos Oz | ||
| 9ecb755 | My father used to say: "If you steal from one book, you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books, you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.")" | Amos Oz | ||
| d73cfc7 | Nikoga ne bikh izliaz'l na boinoto pole - predpochitam da lezha v zatvora - v imeto na teritorialnoto razshiriavane na rodinata mi. Ne bikh voiuval za dop'lnitelna staia za naroda mi. Ne bikh voiuval za Svetite mesta, nito p'k za taka narechenite natsionalni interesi. No bikh se boril kato l'v za zhivota, za svobodata i za nishcho drugo. | Amos Oz | ||
| 9789100 | Da, priznavam si, che kato dete i az biakh mal'k fanatik s promit moz'k. Izp'lnen s praveden gniav, kraen, glukh i sliap za vseki glas, koito se otlichavashe ot obshchiia tsionistki khor. Biakh dete, koeto khv'rlia kam'ni zaradi ideite si, dete na evreiskata intifada. | Amos Oz | ||
| 5d0854a | Iska mi se prosto da mozhekh da vi predpisha: "Chetete i shche se izlekuvate ot fanatizma"." | Amos Oz | ||
| d58b424 | Nasty thoughts are more like worms in the cauliflower! | Amos Oz | ||
| 8d3be11 | on expensive dressmakers who made her luxurious dresses. But she was too mean to wear them: she saved them up at the back of her closet, and most of the time she wore an old mouse-colored housecoat. | Amos Oz | ||
| 28614bf | the Jews' religion. Not money, not gold. The diploma. But behind this faith in the diploma there was something else, something more complicated, more secret, and that is that girls in those days, even modern girls, like us, girls who went to school and then to university, were always taught that women are entitled to an education | Amos Oz | ||
| 18f726a | I understood where I had come from: from a dreary tangle of sadness and pretense, of longing, absurdity, inferiority and provincial pomposity, sentimental education and anachronistic ideals, repressed traumas, resignation, and helplessness. Helplessness of the acerbic, domestic variety, where small-time liars pretended to be dangerous terrorists and heroic freedom fighters, where unhappy bookbinders invented formulas for universal salvation.. | Amos Oz | ||
| 9796827 | And what if ever on some distant day a memory comes to you of an old familiar whiff or the sound of dogs barking far off or a driving hailstorm at dawn and you suddenly fail to grasp what it is you have done, what madness might have possessed you, what devil lured you from your home to the end of the world? | Amos Oz | ||
| b205912 | all the things we think are important really aren't, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death. | Amos Oz | ||
| 1714f56 | That's how God created us: wealth is a crime and poverty is a punishment, though the punishment is not given to the one who sinned, but to the one who hasn't got the money to escape the punishment. The woman, naturally, cannot deny that she is pregnant. The man denies it as much as he likes, and what can you do? God gave men the pleasure and us the punishment. | Amos Oz | ||
| fac59e4 | ADAZhIO ,,Svetlinata si sveti nav'n ot sutrin do vecher, bez da s'znava, che e svetlina. Visokite d'rveta vdishvat tishina, bez da e nuzhno da diriat d'lbokata s'shchnost na d'rvesinata. Pustite stepi se izliagat po gr'b i protiagat snaga do bezkrai, bez da se pitat za patosa na svoiata pustota. Podvizhni pias'tsi prosto se dvizhat, ne misliat za nishcho, dokoga, nak'de. Tsialoto tova udivitelno s'shchestvuvanie e udivitelno, bez to samoto .. | inspirational zen | Amos Oz | |
| 721af82 | Success flows from perspiration, and inspiration from diligence and effort. | Amos Oz | ||
| 6b5f9dc | E egklematikoteta kai e autothusia einai oi duo pleures tou idiou nomismatos. E katadunasteuse opos o altrouismos, e biaioteta opos e autothusia, e katapiese tou plesion opos e katapiese tou eautou mas, e soteria tes psukhes auton pou diapheroun apo sena opos kai e exolothreuse auton pou diapheroun apo sena: den prokeitai gia zeuge antitheton alla gia diaphoretikes ekphraseis tes anthropines kenotetas kai anaxiotetas. | Amos Oz | ||
| da9bfc8 | L'amore e una faccenda intima strana e piena di contraddizioni, visto che non di rado amiamo qualcuno solo perche amiamo noi stessi, per egoismo, avidita, desiderio fisico, brama di dominare l'oggetto d'amore e asservirlo; o al contrario, per desiderio di asservirci e essere dominati dal nostro amante, e in fondo l'amore assomiglia all'odio e gli e piu prossimo di quanto non si pensi normalmente. | jewish love love-and-hate love-hurts love-quotes philosophical philosophy philosophy-of-life religion | Amos Oz | |
| 763f6be | Power has the power to prevent our annihilation for the time being. On condition that we always remember, at every moment, that in a situation like ours power can only prevent. It can't settle anything and it can't solve anything. It can only stave off disaster for a while. | Amos Oz | ||
| cee3997 | Why should they love us?Why do you think the Arabs are not entitled to resist strangers who come here suddenly as if from another planet, and take away their land and their soil, fields, villages and towns, the graves of their ancestors and their children's inheritance? We tell ourselves that we only came to this land "to build and be rebuilt", "to renew our days of old", "to redeem our ancestors heritage", etcetera, but you tell me if ther.. | palastine | Amos Oz | |
| e85b383 | a nutshell, the choice is between going through this life awake or in a kind of stupor. | Amos Oz | ||
| a5857b2 | He always imagined that silence was somehow directed against him. Or that it was his fault. | Amos Oz | ||
| 702cea8 | Thomas Mann writes somewhere that hatred is simply love with a minus sign placed before it. | Amos Oz |