Hope Is a Woman's Name Quotes

“Our daughters, sisters, nieces, aunts, and mothers shut up in a prison called home and murdered by men heralded as champions for defending the family name.”
― Amal Elsana Alh'jooj, Hope Is a Woman's Name: My Journey as a Bedouin Palestinian Activist in Israel

“Ghazaale was eighteen years old, pretty, and full of life. The men in her family accused her of desecrating the family honor. Their words killed her even before a single shot was fired. These cases are burried in the dark and that's where they stay: no questions asked and no information offered. It's done. The family "cleaned its name," burying the rumors together with the body.”
― Amal Elsana Alh'jooj, Hope Is a Woman's Name: My Journey as a Bedouin Palestinian Activist in Israel