“What happens between a husband and wife must stay between them. Always. No matter what.”
-A Woman Is No Man quotes by Etaf Rum
“Too often being happy means being passive or playing it safe. There’s no skill required in happiness, no strength of character, nothing extraordinary. Its discontent that drives creation the most–passion, desire, defiance.”
-A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
“It took more than one woman to do things differently. It took a world of them.”
-A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
“She knew that the suffering of women started in the suffering of men, that the bondages of one became the bondages of the other.”
-A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
“I can tell my own story now, she thinks. And then she does.”
-A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
“A real choice doesn’t have conditions. A real choice is free.”
-A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
“Words could do extraordinary things, but sometimes they were not enough.”
-A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
“But now, reading her books, she was beginning to find a different kind of love. A love that came from inside her, one she felt when she was all alone, reading by the window. And through this love, she was beginning to believe, for the first time in her life, that maybe she was worthy after all.”
-A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
“It’s hard to belong anywhere, truly belong, if we don’t belong to ourselves first.”
-A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
“Sadness was like a cancer, she thought, a presence that staked it’s claim so quietly you might not even notice it until it was too late.”
-A Woman Is No Man quotes by Etaf Rum
“She often wondered how many people felt this way, spellbound by words, wishing to be tucked inside a book and forgotten there.”
-A Woman Is No Man quotes by Etaf Rum
“That to understand someone, you had to listen to the words they didn’t say, had to watch them closely.”
-A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
“If every woman refused to get married after a woman died at the hands of her husband, then no one would ever get married.”
-A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
“But don’t you think stories should be used to tell the truth?”
“No, I think we need stories to protect us from the truth.”
-A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
“It’s time you grew up and learned this now: A woman is not a man.”
-A Woman Is No Man, Etaf Rum
