Emirati Women Quotes

“Abu Dhabi is the hub of hell in August.”
― Jane Bristol-Rhys, Emirati Women: Generations of Change

“At a recent wedding one woman asked why I would agree to wear a traditional-style dress, and before I could answer my friend interjected 'because she studies our traditions and likes them more than we do!”
― Jane Bristol-Rhys, Emirati Women: Generations of Change

“Forty years later Abu Dhabi is one of the wealthiest cities in the world; the memory of poverty has been largely erased and is rarely discussed by the younger generation of Emiratis.”
― Jane Bristol-Rhys, Emirati Women: Generations of Change