Three Daughters of Eve

by Elif Shafak

There was something inscrutable about the collective loss of reason: if enough eyes experienced the same hallucination, it turned into a truth; if enough people laughed at the same misery, it became a funny little joke.

So many prayers are carbon copies of one another. Protect me, love me, support me, it’s all about me … They call it piousness; I call it selfishness in disguise.’

Peri would come to understand that nothing swells the ego quite like a cause motivated by the delusion of pure selflessness.

The greatest bigots in history committed the gravest injustices in the name of justice.’

Ideas must be challenged with ideas. Books with better books. However stupid they might be, you can’t shut down people’s voices. Banning speakers is no way to go.’

three passions of Bertrand Russell: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and the unbearable compassion for the suffering of mankind.’