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...morning instruction. Besides, says Saida, Nahid tells her she learns at school that the Koran teaches her how to be a good wife and mother, instruction that exasperates Saida. "How can the Koran teach you how to live your life, how to take care of your children and your husband?" she asks. So Saida teaches her girls the really important things--how to cook, sew and soothe a husband's ego. "Teaching my daughters how to make their husbands comfortable is the most important thing," she says, "because if a husband is not comfortable, then the woman's life...
...husband says the Koran tells him he can control his wife however he wants," says Banaz, 32, a mother of seven. ("Five boys," she says, jubilantly. "Only two daughters.") "But I have read the Koran, and nowhere does it say this. He is lying to me." Still, Banaz can do nothing. If she disobeys her husband, he will beat her, as he has done many times before. Once, she claims, he hit her chest so hard that she could not breast-feed her daughter for a week...
...passion” and “love,” while the middle contains the words “bad,” “wrong” and “wall.” Especially when one learns that Butt’s husband still lives in Pakistan, it forms an interesting commentary about the difficulty in communicating emotions between men and women, husbands and wives...
...don’t think I want my husband to be the one at home full-time,” said pediatrician Susan Laster ’84. “I don’t know if it’s biological or what...
...never tempted toward newspaper clipping myself. There is one cartoon I tore out of the New Yorker and then promptly threw away because I hated it. I remember it anyway. There is a woman standing by the fridge with a carton of ice cream open in her hand. Her husband (or whoever is the balding man in her life) sticks his head around the corner. “I’m not eating, I’m self-medicating,” is the catchy punchline italicized at the bottom. Subtext: Hah. Silly woman. Clearly self-medication is pathetic...