The Laughter by Sonora Jha — Read

Let the new gods of the earth try as they can, / They cannot hear the sob of her ecstasy. / Fahmida Riaz, "The Laughter of a Woman" (in We Sinful Women)

Since the beginning of the world all men have hunted me like a wolf-kings and sages, and poets and lawgivers, all the churches, and all the philosophies. But I have never been caught yet, and the skies will fall in the time I turn to bay. I have given them a good run for their money, and I will now. / G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday