Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.

There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.