Algerian Quotes

“I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.”

“But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.”