
Sleeping shouts
Came out for the first time in their lives
Because they were tired of injustice

I feel proud and so lucky because I am a mother now. I am going crazy anticipating the time my son will call me “Mummy.”

Consider Parwin, the sixteen-year-old girl who agreed to marry an old warlord if he would stop fighting against the government.

First, I say Salaam, or peace be with you, to those men who, against all odds, stand behind women’s progress even if it forces them to conduct their lives as secretly as many women.

When I asked her about school, she said, “Our province (Parvan province) has Taliban and when we go to school my father is afraid for us. They might kill my father.”

Can she go to school?
No I will not let them
Destroy her dreams. I will fight
for my little angel, and my other sisters in my land

Men often quote a hadith (a saying) from the Prophet Mohammad in which he asked his daughter, “Who is the best woman?”