"In a poem I wrote to her at the death of her younger brother Nimr in 1963 I called her: 'Mistress of the two gifts: love and pain'. She is as eloquent in her praise of love as she is in her communion with death, and later on, when her political anger changed her into a poet of the Palestinian resistance, in her homage to the struggle of her people for freedom. A new phase of her career as poet began when she started holding her audiences spellbound as she read her poetry denouncing the evils of occupation...A woman with no inclination to preach, teach or pontificate, the riches of her life and experience cannot fail to set the example of final triumph and achievement to thousands of women all over the world."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Salma Khadra Jayyusi, from her Forward to A Mountainous Journey: An Autobiography (1990)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fadwa_Tuqan
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Fadwa Tuqan
Fadwa Tuqan (Arabic: فدوى طوقان, romanized: Fadwā Ṭūqān; 1 March 1917 – 12 December 2003) was a poet from Palestine.
32 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Fadwa Tuqan →
Related Quotes
"A seed does not see the light without first cleaving a difficult path through the earth. This story of mine is the st…"
"The iron mould the family cast us in and would not allow us to break, the time-worn rules difficult to overturn, the …"
"The poorer women thought nothing of moving around the bath rooms with naked breasts and buttocks. I was delighted wit…"
"Just as tyrannical surveillance, repression and sugjugation in society give rise to the dual traits of submission and…"
"The man dominated family life, as in all homes of our society. The woman had to forget that the word 'no' existed in …"
"In school I was able to discover some parts of my lost self. There I established myself as a person, something I had …"
"With the arrival of spring, I experienced this thing called love that has continued endlessly to spin its cocoon arou…"
"For the first time I experienced blissful sleeplessness full of fantasies and delightful imaginings; and for the firs…"
"I sense the absurdity and aimlessness of life as I stand bewildered, lost and weak before the tide of overpowering de…"
"Throughout my literary career I have shrunk within myself and shied away whenever confronted with questions concernin…"