I am so undeniably lonely, so unspeakably unlovable. I am a woman of strict boundaries in a world that thinks it owns my body, soul, thoughts, values, future, life, and destiny.
I am so unbearably rebellious, so undesirably human.
I am a woman shaped by defiance, by solitude, by understanding, by empathy, and this combination is indigestible to a world built on oppression, control, and inhumanity. I am a human in a dehumanizing society.
And I fight to stay a human in a dehumanized world.
— Sadia Hakim