Every boy, at least once, has thought—if only I were a girl—not for the lack of strength, but for the freedom to be weak.
— Sadia Hakim
If only I were a girl—maybe my tears wouldn’t be a burden, maybe my silence wouldn’t be mistaken for strength.
— Sadia Hakim
There are days when a boy thinks—if only I were a girl—so he wouldn’t have to wear his pain like an invisible wound no one cares to see.
— Sadia Hakim
Not because he doesn’t want to be a man, but because the world would allow him to fall—if only he were a girl.
— Sadia Hakim
Every boy has thought it, not for the absence of responsibility, but for the permission to feel—if only I were a girl.
— Sadia Hakim
Letters Unsent
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