Kendra

“Just as religion can lead its devotees to suspend reason for faith, it can also lead them to suspend morality for piety. Indeed,”
― Ali A. Rizvi, The Atheist Muslim: A Journey from Religion to Reason

“When liberals equate criticizing Islamic doctrine with anti-Muslim bigotry, it leaves a vacuum that is too frequently filled by genuine right-wing anti-Muslim bigots who are even more disagreeable. Who gets stuck in the middle? Ex-Muslims.”
― Ali A. Rizvi, The Atheist Muslim: A Journey from Religion to Reason

“The world which men have made isn’t working. Something needs to change. To change the world, we women need first to change ourselves – and then we need to change the stories we tell about who we are. The stories we’ve been living by for the past few centuries – the stories of male superiority, of progress and growth and domination – don’t serve women and they certainly don’t serve the planet. Stories matter, you see.”
― Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

“That love is worth it. It is worth any hardship, it is worth illness. It is worth injury. It is worth isolation. It is even worth death. For life without love is only a shadow of life.”
― Myke Cole, The Armored Saint