Fatima Afridi

“It’s not just that you internalize the shame; rather, it becomes you. You no longer need the people at school telling you not to dress like that; you already do it to yourself.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“We all have patterns we repeat. Learn to recognize your patterns early. Maturation is only learning to spot these patterns and having the self-discipline to make different decisions once you do. Practice will make the process faster.”
― Leslie Odom Jr., Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning

“no American who can’t relate to the balancing act called American democracy, a marvel of inefficiency that has somehow never quite lost us our prosperity or our freedom.”
― William Zinsser, Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All

“she returned full of talk about the streets, wondering at sights which others would not notice and seeing beauty in strange places.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family