Beauty is in the skin! - Fatema Mernissi

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

But it was the radio incident that taught me an important lesson. It was then that Mother told me about the need to chew my words before letting them out. ‘Turn each word around your tongue seven times, with your lips tightly shut, before uttering a sentence,’ she said. ‘Because once your words are out, you might lose a lot.’”

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