“Who said to kill does not require gentleness?”
“How is it possible to live? Life is so hard?’‘You must be harder than life, Firdaus. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.’‘But you are not hard, Sharifa, so how do you manage to live?’‘I am hard, terribly hard, Firdaus.’‘No, you are gentle and soft.’‘My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite deadly.’‘Like a snake?’‘Yes, exactly like a snake. Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.”
Nawal El-Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero“Who said to kill does not require gentleness?”
Nawal El-Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero“I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.”
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