Alison Wearing

“...until we make peace with our homes, we can never quite make peace with ourselves.”
― Alison Wearing, Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad

“In Europe they think it is a bit barbaric, this way to look for a wife," Mohammad says to his hands, which have not stopped fidgeting since we sat down. [...] "Sometimes I believe it is barbaric how do people meet each other in Europe, you know, so often through alcohol or some kind of superficial meeting, parties or someplace other. It is so easy to… how do you call it… act as some other person. I had one German girlfriend, for two years were we together and only have I seen some sides of her, very good and kind, but only the outside, fun and happy, I could not see who was she in earnest. It was always something for showing other people.”
― Alison Wearing, Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey