![]() ![]() ![]() For someone like Hirsi Ali a love-it-or-loathe-it fierce confidence was absolutely essential for her to become the woman she is now she came from a Somali family which moved to Saudi Arabia and then to Kenya without losing its oppressive sense of tradition. To their detractors, Andrea Dworkin was a fantasist, Emmeline Pankhurst was an egoist, and even Mary Wollstonecraft was a hyena in petticoats. "You think and dream about your freedom! You no longer have to tolerate oppression."įemale visionaries who break out of traditional societies often set other people's teeth on edge. Her fury about these crimes makes her essays vibrant and inspiring, as she reminds her readers that women do not have to accept violence in the home or stunted ambitions: "You know you are worth more than this!" Hirsi Ali calls to her female readers. Ayaan Hirsi Ali rages at crimes that are done to women by men: from forced marriage to female genital mutilation from denial of education to sexual abuse within the family. ![]()
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