📖BOOK TITLE: A WOMAN IS NO MAN
📖AUTHOR: ETAF RUM
📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:
#LetterA of my alphabet challenge #SeventhBookOf2024
OMG! What do I want to say about this book? Everything felt so real—the pain was real, the struggles were real. Indeed a WOMAN IS NO MAN. This book was heartbreaking, but I did not cry. I felt broken to read what the women in this story passed through and what they had to face on a daily basis.
The hitting, the abusive husbands and fathers, and depriving their daughters of education were all wrong, but these women had to do it because it was their 'culture'. I cannot even imagine a girl 15 or 16 getting married to a man she didn't know or love and in less than a year having a child or two. She is still a child who wasn't allowed to have a normal childhood, and she is supposed to train children( how is that supposed to work?).
The story of Isra was the most painful; I can't imagine her mom never reaching out, not even once; she even died—not died but murdered—and her murder was swept under the carpet like nothing even happened.
To all the women who are struggling: I SEE YOU, AND YOU WILL BE FINE.
To all the women who want more out of life: IT IS VALID.
To all the women who are in abusive relationships with either their parents or partners: THE COURAGE TO LEAVE WILL BE UPON YOU.
TO EVERY WOMAN, YOUR VOICE WILL BE HEARD!!
📖QUOTES:
"love was the anchor, the glue that seemingly held the whole world together."
"Fear has a way ofputting things in perspective.”
"But sometimes you have to make the best of things."
"Take life as it comes, accept things as they are."
"Words could do extraordinary things, but sometimes they were not enough."
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