The Most Splendid Journey... Fadwa Tuqan

“For me, love has always carried a meaning far wider than simply affirming a woman’s femininity; for me it has been an affirmation of my crushed humanity, and a rescue of it. All my life I remained drawn to love, driven by a poetic feeling that is hard to explain. Just as birds respond involuntarily to the directions of the magnetic field in determining the course of their flight, so too did my response to love persist; it remained the flame that most powerfully drew me across life’s many realms.”