"I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life."

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In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali