Ingi

“I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught. Since the day we enter this world we were a label, a number, a statistic, that's just the way it is. Now if you ask me what race I am, like Zlata, I'll simply say, "I'm a human being.”
― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary

“أيوة عندك حق إحنا بنحب نعمل أصنام ونعبدها ولما نزهق منها نكسرها! بس”
― أشرف العشماوي, سيدة الزمالك

“يمكن للمرء أن يكون حزينا بلا مبرر ، و أن يحصل علي أسم براق لحزنه،لكن لماذا تحتاج السعادة إلي كا تلك المعادلات الرياضية و التجارب المخبريةلكي نصدق وجودها”
― بثينة العيسى, كل الأشياء

“Emotional loneliness is so distressing that a child who experiences it will do whatever is necessary to make some kind of connection with the parent. These children may learn to put other people's needs first as the price of admission to a relationship. Instead of expecting others to provide support or show interest in them, they may take on the role of helping others, convincing everyone that they have few emotional needs of their own. Unfortunately, this tends to create even more loneliness, since covering up your deepest needs prevents genuine connection with others.”
― Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents