The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.
Khaled HosseiniWithout women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.
Khaled HosseiniI foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home
Khaled Hosseini