الحمد لله

bringing this back

“It seemed that what people were calling courageous was simply the fact that I happened to still be breathing.”

“And to parents… it is your absolute responsibility, especially to your daughters, to compliment them. It’s not wrong of you to tell them ‘you are beautiful.’ You should tell them they’re beautiful. Because if they don’t hear that from you, they’re going to look to hear that from somebody else. Our girls have low self-esteem because nobody validates them — especially the fathers. The fathers, you have to go out of your way to compliment your daughters. And stop having the attitude that nothing they do is good enough. Stop talking down to them, it’s killing them. It’s killing them. In our deen we always talk about the rights of the parents, and they have rights. But they have responsibilities, too.”

"I think of how gentle we are with our children, with each other's children. How, in the middle of a conversation, without having to look, our hand reflexively reaches out and folds over the sharp corner of the coffee table as a baby crawls past. How do you protect your child from a missile aimed at your house?"