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“The people in the books are much better than people outside books. Literature is different from war.”
“By reading more novels, Homeira, you will become more creative. You will know more people and you will experience many different lives.”
“In this land, it is better to be a stone than to be a girl.”
“Why are you trying to become a man? Put on a floral embroidered scarf. Put on red lipstick and wait for your husband to come home at night. Men prefer women like that.”
Polygamy is still very common in Afghanistan, and what it requires of women is the willingness to accept that your husband has other wives, but even more, to accept that you have become just a number in the family and in the world. I would always be my husband’s wife number one, but of what value is that? A number is a number and my dignity is lost.
