Jenny Nordberg Quotes

#1. A great many people in this world would be willing to throw out their gender in a second if it could be traded for freedom.

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#2. Power has always been held by those who manage to controls the origins of life by controlling woman's bodies.

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#3. no secrets will be offered up immediately, Carol cautions. "You must listen to what they never say.

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#4. Being born with power, as a boy, doesn't necessarily spur innovation. But being born entirely without it forces innovation in women, who must learn to survive almost from the moment they are born. Afghan women do not need much well-intentioned training on that.

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#5. Reputation is more than symbolic in Afghanistan; it is a commodity that is hard to restore once it has been damaged.

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#6. When one gender is so unwanted, so despised, and so suppressed in a place where daughters are expressly unwanted, perhaps both the body and the mind of a growing human can be expected to revolt against becoming a woman. And thus, perhaps, alter someone for good.

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#7. We know what it's like to be men. But they know nothing about us.

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#8. Nine out of ten Afghan women will experience domestic abuse in some form,

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#9. to most students, what sets little boys and girls apart is all exterior: pants versus skirts. That, and the knowledge that those with pants always come first.

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#10. Men's animalistic impulses are presumed to be overwhelming and uncontrollable. And as men are brutal, brainless savages, women must hide their bodies to avoid being assaulted.

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#11. No group can be truly suppressed until its members are trained and convinced to suppress one another.

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#12. Regardless of who they are, whether they are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, Afghan women often describe the difference between men and women in just one word: freedom.

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#13. If anything, she had been guilty of pride and raw ambition.

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#14. France implemented a law in 1800 that said women could not wear pants; it was not formally removed until 2013.

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#15. Those who control life, and the bodies of women, control the money and hold the power. Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power.

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