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Sarcastic oscar wilde quotes1/11/2024 ![]() ![]() I don’t know if those translated quotes were by Wilde himself or his characters, it never said in those publications, they were always cited something like “Oscar Wilde – famous British playwright” or “Oscar Wilde – the sarcastic writer”, or similarly, but all these quotes had one thing in common: in a way, they were all sexist, sometimes downright misogynistic – even when I still didn’t know to define them as such, at that age, most of these quotes left me feeling bad I would never be on this Oscar-Wilde-person’s imaginary list of invited or people to hang out with because I belonged to this uncool group, the women.Īnd so it was that, up to now, I have avoided reading Wilde there is almost nothing that feels as bad as consuming the literature of a sexist writer, a celebrated one at that, and the bitter aftertaste it leaves. And when I say “never read”, I am not being very accurate really, because growing up and as a teenager, I was exposed to Wilde through translated quotes occasionally appearing in various magazine and newspaper sections as well as in a daily Al-Ahram column whose author dedicated it every Friday to a list of quotes he’d share with his readers. I have a confession to make: I have never read anything by Oscar Wilde, none of his plays, his epigrams, and not his one novel and very consciously so. ![]()
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