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" Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals. "

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" In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven. "

G. Willow Wilson

Woman

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" I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things. "

" Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes. "

" I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job. "

" When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics. "

" The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy. "

" It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it. "

" Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in. "

" I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?' "

" The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago. "

" I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque. "

" The Qur'an is God's property, not mine. "

" 'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically. "

" Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place. "

" There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators. "

" I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators. "

" 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 think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't. "

" What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward. "

" I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media. "

" For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons. "

G. Willow Wilson

Insomnia

Something

" Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it. "

" Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think. "

" Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty. "

G. Willow Wilson

Superhero

Superheroes

" For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam. "

" The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10. "

" To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray. "

G. Willow Wilson

You

Driving

" In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim. "

" My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see. "

" 'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble. "