I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swallow my tongue and die. Don’t leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I’ll die if you go.

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.