Zabel yesayan quotes about happiness

Zabel Yesayan (Armenian - Զապէլ Եսայեան), (4 February1878 – 1943), was an Ottoman Armenian novelist, translator, and professor of literature.

Quotes

• We are very aware that we are in the middle of a war. But we are still continuing our calm and monotonous lives.

• When Ms Düsap heard that I was also about to embark on a literary career, Mrs.

  Düsap warned me that a crown of thorns rather than a crown of laurels awaited women on this road. In this world of ours it is not tolerated when a woman does well and claims a place for herself. In order to achieve this, it would be necessary for a woman to be far above average and she added: A man can be a merely average writer but a woman, never!

  • "Pagavan E : Zabel Yesayan'ın Barış Çağrısını Duyabilmek"] ["Enough! : Being Able to Hear Zabel Yesayan's Call for Peace"] by Melissa Bilal, in Kültür ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar [Feminist Approaches in Culture and Politics], Issue 7 (March 2009)