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“Never assume you know it all. Ask questions.”

Book:Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

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“Much of the atrocities that are committed towards Arab women occur partly because the victim does not know that she has a basic right for her body to be hers, for her privacy to be respected and for her education to be a necessity not a privilege she receives if it is financially possible after her brother has been educated.”

Feminist Women S Rights Rape Gender Equality Female Empowerment Rape Culture Childhood Abuse Gender Inequality Female Liberation Gender Studies Arab Women Child Marriage Feminismsm Arab Woman

Author:Aysha Taryam

“And I never thought this day would come, but here I am, sitting in front of the ritual fire, repeating Sanskrit mantras I don’t understand. He’s looking at me now, and I can feel it on my skin. We are getting married. Damini is locked away somewhere in a room, Lakshmi is at Lord Krishna’s feet in the heavens, and I’m going to be his wife.”

Love Religion Choice Mantra Heavens Rituals Lord Krishna Child Marriage

Book:So I Let It Be

Source: So I Let It Be

“Marrying before 35 should be considered as child marriage.”

Marriage Marrying Child Marriage 35

Author:Nitya Prakash

“As a matter of fact I'd had my hair dyed a marvelous shade of pale red so popular with Parisian tarts that season.”

Pink Hair Dye Pink Hair

Book:The Dud Avocado

Source: The Dud Avocado

“Would you believe it? – the instant she clapped eyes on me, she said that she saw I had taken to dyeing my hair! I was never more shocked, for it is quite untrue! It is not dyeing one’s hair merely to restore its colour when it begins to fade a little! I denied it, of course, but all she did was to give the horridest laugh, which made me feel ready to sink, as you may suppose!”

Hair Dye

Book:False Colours

Source: False Colours

“O, elixir of youth, thy name is hair dye.”

Funny Youth Vanity Getting Older Aging Gracefully Elixir Hair Dye Hair Color Beauty Product Elixir Of Youth

Book:Vocation of a Gadfly

Source: Vocation of a Gadfly

“I spent the day stripping the purple out of my hair and redyeing it—Manic Panic Electric Tiger Lily. The jar promised it would glow under a black light, but somehow I didn’t think the grange hall was going to turn the lights off and get funky.”

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Book:The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

Source: The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

“Robyn hit me with her worst: the cool, calm anger of someone who would have no problem sneaking pink hair dye into your shampoo.”

Anger Shampoo Hair Dye

Book:Match Me If You Can

Source: Match Me If You Can

“Stories provide a map that can help navigate the bumps in the road. (p.32)”

Book:Belonging Metis

Source: Belonging Metis

“(Prayer is) a fictitious consolation invented by those who have everything in order to keep those who have nothing contented. I belong to the bourgeoisie and I know the only reason my class bothers to show the lower classes that distant paradise full of ineffable pleasures that will one day be theirs is to divert attention from their own bulging coffers and from the abundance of their harvests.”

Religion Prayer

Book:The Mandarin and Other Stories

Source: The Mandarin and Other Stories

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