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.

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.

The house is a factory.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

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

My parents told me they were going to kill me at least a thousand times growing up. "I'm gonna kill you," and then they'd whack me on the side of the head or whatever. And "What's wrong with you?" And "I'm gonna lock you up," and "I'm gonna throw you out the window," and "I'm gonna kill you." You know, all these things that you say in the heat of a normal chaotic household.