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61 " It’s so easy for people like me”—a diplomat’s son raised abroad and educated in America—“to be totally off base about this country and what it is ready to accept. "
― Geraldine Brooks , Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
62 " Such laws can be even more humiliating for older women. A widowed grandmother, for example, may have to rely on the permission of a grandson if he is her closest male relative. "
63 " She’d been married at twelve, before her menarche, and had been pregnant or lactating ever since. "
64 " Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And "
65 " Wealthy women who wanted to keep fit maintained well-equipped gyms in their homes and hired personal trainers. The rest led completely sedentary lives. "
66 " In both cases, women are expected to sacrifice their comfort and freedom to service the requirements of male sexuality: either to repress or to stimulate the male sex urge. "
67 " The lieutenant colonel wondered if the high scores reflected a defect in the newly built shooting range at the women’s academy. To find out, he commandeered the men’s academy shooting range and ordered the women to redo the test. There he watched in growing astonishment as bullet after bullet slammed home, right smack in the center of the target. "
68 " They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid. "
69 " We have to fight now to make them understand that everyone has the right to live freely. It’s another war, I think. "
70 " one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals. "
71 " month—the money gives the women at least a small degree of discretion in spending and the prestige that comes from contributing to the family budget. "
72 " To lessen or destroy sexual pleasure is to lessen temptation; a fallback in case the religious injunctions on veiling and seclusion somehow fail to do the job. "
73 " under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable. "
74 " women now share the economic burden of their families, very few Egyptian men are prepared to share the housework. To "
75 " The Bedouin was troubled by a familiar bundle of Middle Eastern bogeys: America in general and the CIA in particular; Jews, or if not Jews, then Christians; women’s sexuality—both the fear of a “past” and the dread of present emancipation signaled by the absence of a veil. "