Ahdaf Soueif Quote

You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like — Sartre and Camus and all that — they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not — mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell—

In the Eye of the Sun (ed. Anchor, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307789259