Annette Hester

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“Biographers polish away the jagged edges of capable, ruthless queens so they may be remembered as saints, and geographers warn believing men away from such and such a place with scandalous tales of lewd local females who cavort in the sea and ravish foreign interlopers.”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

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“strangely, they have little compunction when it comes to spreading vicious rumors about her body and her sexuality: these things that men obsess over when they hate what they desire and desire what they cannot possess.”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

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“God, when I cross the truth, give me
the awareness to receive it
the consciousness to recognize it
the presence to personalize it
the patience to preserve it
and the courage to live it.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

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“For this scribe has read a great many of these accounts and taken away another lesson: that to be a woman is to have your story misremembered. Discarded. Twisted.”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

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“(...)though, strangely, they have little compunction when it comes to spreading vicious rumors about her body and her sexuality: theses things that men obsess over when they hate what they desire and desire what they cannot possess.”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

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