The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.
If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.
We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.
I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.
We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
Elene gasped and sat up. "Kylar Thaddeus Stern!" Kylar giggled. "Thaddeus? That's a good one. I knew a Thaddeus once. " "So did I. He was a blind idiot. " "Really?" Kylar said, his eyes dancing. "The one I knew was famous for his gigantic-" "Kylar!" Elene interrupted, motioning toward Uly. "His gigantic what?" Uly asked. "Now you did it. " Elene said, "His gigantic what, Kyler?" "Feet. And you know what they say about big feet. " He winked lasciviously at Elene. "What?" Uly asked. "Big Shoes," Kylar said.
All the old fellows stole our best ideas.
I go to an analyst not because I need to but because I choose to and maybe that's the difference. I don't think I have any huge neurosis, but I have questions for which I seek if not answers at least a guidance toward the answers.
Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back in time, the trip had been triggered by proximity to a person whose past was being threatened. I have to tell you,” I said frankly, “if someone is trying to mess with your conception or something, I’m not feeling a pressing need to intervene.