“I was a woman and I couldn’t speak with the voice of a man, because it was not my voice – not true and not my own. But there was more to it than that. By writing in a woman’s voice I wanted to say that a woman, too, is a human being. To say that we, too, have the right to breathe, to cry out, and to sing.”

“I was a woman and I couldn’t speak with the voice of a man, because it was not my voice – not true and not my own. But there was more to it than that. By writing in a woman’s voice I wanted to say that a woman, too, is a human being. To say that we, too, have the right to breathe, to cry out, and to sing.”

— Jasmin Darznik