Shazma

“How do you control a population? You keep the people poor and uneducated. Tell them the same lie for centuries, and tie that lie to religion. Those people will believe you even when the truth is dancing naked in front of them. Because to believe otherwise would mean their entire world has always been a lie. And that realization is too difficult for most people to take.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“I put men first in pity, then found there was none left for me.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

“What is a man to a woman?
A door.

And what does a door do?
It opens the way forward or blocks it.

This door has blocked my path.
Not just mine — it’s blocked the path of every woman.

It never lets her move ahead.
It never has let her move ahead.

That’s why women have never been prophets nor saints.”
― Umera Ahmed, Shahr E Zaat/شہر ذات

“Hope dies last”
― Proverb