Guests of the Sheik Quotes

“And in spite of the relative obscurity in which these women lived, I came to realize how much they influenced men, their husbands and especially their sons, and even-indirectly, by silent example (as did the teachers)-men they never saw or met. Not only did the women influence, but in many cases they helped to determine events: whom their sons would marry, whom their daughters would marry, whether or not a child would go on to school and university. And they did this without coercion, without publicity, and above all without reproach.”
― Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

“And in spite of the relative obscurity in which these women lived, I came to realize how much they influenced men, their husbands and especially their sons, and even-indirectly, by silent example (as did the teachers)-men they never saw or met. Not only did the women influence, but in many cases they helped to determine events ... And they did this without coercion, without publicity, and above all without reproach.”
― Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village