A Door in the Earth Quotes

“War was about controlling the story as much as the territory. That made information -- its release and sometimes, if necessary, its withholding -- a weapon.”
― Amy Waldman, A Door in the Earth

“Parveen, beware feminism that serves imperial or colonial interests or that, in my friend Gayatri's perfect phrase, involves 'white men saving brown women from brown men.' We tell stories in order to occupy.”
― Amy Waldman, A Door in the Earth

“Flies blackened the plates of sugared almonds, which grew sticky in the sun.”
― Amy Waldman, A Door in the Earth

“The particularity of a person, once you saw it, couldn’t easily be erased.”
― Amy Waldman, A Door in the Earth

“Not so long ago surgeons had hacked away at women’s chest muscles to remove their breast cancer. Was it less chauvinistic to believe you could beat an illness out of a woman? At least the mullah admitted to the power of what could not be seen or known.”
― Amy Waldman, A Door in the Earth