Quote by Laila
"I wish to be a doctor. I wish to be useful and earn money and not depend on a man to take care of me in the way my mother has had to."
More from Laila
"I am the color of spinach, the color of old things."
"Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman."
"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."
"I had not understood that I was sad until I was happy."