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.

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"

But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wishes, and create anew.