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“Of course you can,” Rukshana’s grandmother said. “We are women. Sometimes our husbands leave us. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they’re there and we’re still alone. Yet everyone of us has survived. What makes you so special?”

‘…. once freedom is taken away along with one’s basic dignities, a living being either has to deny its own instincts and surrender to the oppressor, or to be consumed by a new instinct: to reach for its own death.’

“You remove an individual from society and they lose their ability to be social. Normal behavior falls away.”

‘Everybody thinks everybody wants to leave-but who would want to leave their home, their family, everything they love? We leave because we have to. I left because there came a point when I had no choice.’