G. Willow Wilson

There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics. ”

The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy. ”

If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy. ”

The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors. ”

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. ”

Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork. ”

The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings. ”

In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country. ”

I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white. ”

I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth. ”