Status Updates From Manto: Selected Stories

"I felt the urge many times to start screaming, 'for God's sake, let men remain men! You have defaced them already, fine, now have mercy on their condition. While you are busy trying to make gods out of them, those poor wretches are losing whatever humanity they do have!'"

“Sometimes she felt that, though she had not sold herself, people had slyly bought her anyway.”