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“I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

“I’ve learned over the years that a closed bedroom door can reveal a broken heart as easily as it hides one.”
― Sasha Martin, Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

“Once, I thought happiness was the sizzle in the pan. But it’s not. Happiness is the spice—that fragile speck, beholden to the heat, always and forever tempered by our environment.”
― Sasha Martin, Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

“Today, when I think back on the early days and months of Thurston’s and my relationship, I wonder whether you can truly love, or be loved back, by someone who hides who they are.”
― Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band