Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

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.

Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?