Last to Eat, Last to Learn Quotes

“Too often we judge people for making us defend our point of view. Yet the only questions that have the power to offend us are the ones we don't have the answer to.”
― Pashtana Durrani, Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women

“She wasn’t going to go to school anymore; she got married, her father explained. Her new husband was a widower, in his late thirties, with three small children, and he needed someone to raise those children. Pashtana’s father explained he had no choice but to marry her off because he couldn’t feed her anymore. She would be better off this way, he said. Pashtana was nine years old.”
― Pashtana Durrani, Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women

“The more I thought about it, the more it seemed to me that it all starts with education. Lack of education wasn't a byproduct of poverty; it was a weapon. Denying it was deliberate and served a political purpose. It was meant to keep the girls silent, compliant, and disconnected from the world. It denied them a voice.”
― Pashtana Durrani, Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women