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“All the while, fighting for the self-respect and independence of her tribe, she was unaware of the chains of Patriarchy that bound her too. She had no place of her own. She was a nobody without the identity of a man, first her father and now her husband. She was as insignificant as the women she wanted to fight for. Life was a loop within the boundaries society drew around women.”

“The conch shells blew as the priest handed me the red powder, supposed to be used to mark my territories. Man and his primitive needs to mark what is his. A little bit of vermillion dropped on her nose, making her scrunch, the red on her hairline established a truth. Men, unlike women, had no symbols of a union. Women did not mark their territories. They made homes. (Scarlet: A Short Story)”