I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didnt want to be either one.

I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill. I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger. I have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen. Not really. Even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being. Never this broken.

I've read too many books to believe what I am told.

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.

War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of light and darkness

The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.