A Woman Is No Man

by Etaf Rum

a woman will always be a woman. Here or there. Location will not change her naseeb, her destiny.”

Isra didn’t understand. Why would anyone want to be a woman when she could be a bird?

“It’s not strange at all,” Sarah said. “It’s the loneliest people who love books the most.”

“Mothers carry the entire family—arguably the entire world—on their shoulders. That’s why heaven lies under their feet.”