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Like other women writers of my class, I am expected to tame my talent to suit the comfort of my family.

— Kamala Surayya

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If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze.

A book is a good substitute for a man. Fiction, preferably.

Wipe out the paints, unmould the clay, Let nothing remain of that yesterday.

You didn't ever love him, but you were sentimental about him.

I am sinner, I am saint. I am the beloved and the betrayed. I have no joys that are not yours, no aches which are not yours. I too call myself I.

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