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“The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down.”
“To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.”
“The 'Ms. Marvel' mantle has passed to 'Kamala Khan,' a high school student from Jersey City who struggles to reconcile being an American teenager with the conservative customs of her Pakistani Muslim family.”
“The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.”
“That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.”
“It's not the size of the girl in the fight that counts... it's the size of the fight in the girl! -MISS MARVEL”
“The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it.”
“I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.”
“'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.”
“I suppose every innovation started out as a fantasy.”
“I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.”
“Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.”
“A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.”
“I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.”
“I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.”
“For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.”
“We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.”
“The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.”
“Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.”
“There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.”