WomenOnTheFrontLine

My year of reading fiction by African women. theguardian.com/books/2018/d…

The tyrants of all stripes, infernal servants, have deep-seated hatred for the nomads - they persecute the Gypsies and the Jews, and force all free peoples to settle. ― Olga Tokarczuk

"Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging." — Jhumpa Lahiri

"I don't want to live in a world where my sons and other decent people are held responsible for criminal, immoral or inhumane acts as other people just because they come from the same geographic area." — Joumana Haddad

"You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women." — Alaa Salah

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you." — Arundhati Roy

"Despite the current regime’s best laid plans to redirect women into the private domain, the female population in Iran is distinguished by an unprecedented surge in female literacy and a flourishing feminist movement." — Nina Ansary

"We know how to turn pain into power. Our mothers and grandmothers taught us how to do that." — Marta Dillon

"Justice for women means the right to live in safety." — Lydia Cacho

"Women, whether they know it or not, they are name nomads. Their surnames are here today, gone tomorrow. Throughout their lives, women fill out official forms in different ways, apply for new passports and design several signatures." — Elif Shafak

"Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture." — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie