Happiness was when there was a balance between what you gave and what you took - Fatema Mernissi

Sometimes, she said that to be stuck in a harem simply meant that a woman had lost her freedom of movement. Other times, she said that a harem meant misfortune because a woman had to share her husband with many others"

She would take him to faraway lands to observe foreign ways, so he could get closer to the strangeness within himself.

There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible.