Our society has a really bad problem of shaming people into silence when they've been sexually assaulted.

Our patriarchal society does not like to hear this voice, it's a voice that even Afghan politicians want to silence. But despite these problems, I and millions of other Afghan women have been successful through our tireless efforts to open a small glimpse of hope, for the future generations and for the children of Afghanistan.

Silence is a friend who will never betray.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing.

She belongs to a Temperance Society and wears one of those badges in the shape of a bow of ribbon to show that she would never take a drink, not even brandy if she were dying. Of course by temperance they all mean the opposite - total abstinence.