“When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines tra...” — M.E. Thomas Quote

“When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.”

“Humanity’s fixation on the external world is so deeply ingrained that prophets had to translate internal states of mind into external characters such as angels, demons, God, and Satan so the average person could understand their own psychology.”

“Penegakan sistem Islam dan pemberlakuan syariat Islam tidak dapat dilakukan dengan cara merebut kekuasaan yang datang dari lapisan atas. Akan tetapi, melalui perubahan masyarakat secara keseluruhan—atau pemahaman beberapa kelompok masyarakat dalam jumlah yang mencukupi untuk mengarahkan seluruh masyarakat—pada pemikirannya, nilai-nilainya, akhlaknya, dan komitmennya dengan Islam. Sehingga tumbuh kesadaran dalam jiwa mereka, bahwa menegakkan sistem dan syariat Islam itu merupakan sebuah kewajiban yang harus dilaksanakan.”

“If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.”

“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

“I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.”