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41 " Remember, girls, you can be anything you want to be. Don’t allow anyone to make you believe otherwise. See, these beauties were simple worms once. "
― Ava Homa , Daughters of Smoke and Fire
42 " Now that my corkscrew-curly hair, which grew upward instead of down toward my shoulders, had finally grown long enough to be tied back, I was told that I had to hide it under a headscarf. God would monitor my every move from now on, because I had turned nine, and He would hang me by my hair in hell if I failed to cover it. "
43 " I had been trying to serve my family, eradicate filth from our home, but nothing I did was ever enough. Nothing I did could make my parents praise me, make my brother notice my sacrifices, or even make God save me from “sorrow and fear,” as advertised in the holy book. "
44 " So ridiculous that the battles fought by wealthy countries are called ‘World War’ and poor countries’ fights are ‘tribal war! "
45 " Peshmerga: those who face death. What a brave girl. An educated dreamer at a time when women weren’t supposed to be either. "