I’m not surprised she had such a low opinion of herself. She was raised in a misogynistic culture that taught her that her only worth was between her legs. She had never bothered to cultivate any part of her intellect or personality. Someone that empty is the perfect raw material, the perfect vessel, to fill with religious fundamentalism. My mother was a stereotypical religious zealot. No sympathy, empathy or logic gets through to a zealot. There are no tactics or manoeuvres to get through to their human side. They are programmed to follow, and nothing interferes with that unbending
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