Saira Khan

“No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“Indeed, what is remarkable about the sexual revolution—this is why it was so formative for the politics of a generation of radical feminists—is how much was left unchanged. Women who say no still really mean yes, and women who say yes are still sluts. Black and brown men are still rapists, and the rape of black and brown women still doesn’t count. Girls are still asking for it. Boys still must learn to give it.”
― Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

“But I must have overdone it, and the relationship between truth and fiction must have gone awry: now every street, every building had become recognizable,”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“and compare it with mine and feel—I hoped—in the lead. Luckily I sensed that she would never do it and that I would only have stupidly exposed myself. I remained silent, as she did.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name