How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.. It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.. But now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.