Mahabouba Muhammad is an Ethiopian woman who was sold by a neighbor to another man, to be his second wife. At fourteen, her pregnancy by rape led to a fistula. Utterly abandoned otherwise, her life was saved by staff at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, where she now works as a nurse’s aide.
Mahabouba Muhammad Quotes in Half the Sky
The Half the Sky quotes below are all either spoken by Mahabouba Muhammad or refer to Mahabouba Muhammad . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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“No one reading this book, we hope, can fathom the sadistic cruelty of those soldiers who used a pointed stick to tear apart Dina's insides. But there is also a milder, more diffuse cruelty of indifference, and it is global indifference that leaves some 3 million women and girls incontinent just like Dina.”
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Mahabouba Muhammad Quotes in Half the Sky
The Half the Sky quotes below are all either spoken by Mahabouba Muhammad or refer to Mahabouba Muhammad . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 6
Quotes
“No one reading this book, we hope, can fathom the sadistic cruelty of those soldiers who used a pointed stick to tear apart Dina's insides. But there is also a milder, more diffuse cruelty of indifference, and it is global indifference that leaves some 3 million women and girls incontinent just like Dina.”
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