Mandeep Rajput

“Our freedom and safety are the ultimate goals, and it is men who prevent us from achieving those goals. But not all men, says Mejal. Ona clarifies: Perhaps not men, per se, but a pernicious ideology that has been allowed to take hold of men’s hearts and minds.”
― Miriam Toews, Women Talking

“If personal meaning, in this cheer leader society, lies in success, then failure must threaten identity itself.”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

“Surely, she says, encouraging others to lie on our behalves must be a worse sin than lying ourselves.”
― Miriam Toews, Women Talking

“Greta has many times announced that she is no longer a Mennonite -- and yet was born from Mennonites and continues to live as a Mennonite, with Mennonites, in a Mennonite colony, where she speaks the Mennonite language. Those things do not make me a Mennonite, Greta argues. [I] don't know where to go.”
― Miriam Toews, Women Talking