Gülden Papadopoulos

“Not knowing for certain, but refusing to give way to those who claim certainty, was a privilege I had never allowed myself. My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“The problems we face today eventually turn into blessings in the rearview mirror of life. In time, yesterday’s red light leads us to a greenlight. All destruction eventually leads to construction, all death eventually leads to birth, all pain eventually leads to pleasure. In this life or the next, what goes down will come up.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“İçimdeki kıpırdanışları dinliyorum. Bir şeylere açılmak, bir yerlere koşmak, dünyayı kavramak istiyorum. Dünyanın bize yaşatılandan, öğretilenden daha başka olduğunu seziyorum.”
― Tezer Özlü, Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri

“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.”
― Sara Ahmed