Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.

I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps...

That’s the way life takes us,’ Elleke once said. ‘It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.’ What she didn’t say was that through it all we manage...