“nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”
i'm a 26 year old egyptian currently in my fourth year of medical school living around new york city.
A women’s rights protest in Tunis. Image via Tunisia Live
You cannot avoid it. Men are in the street with you, and you have to go to school, you have to go to work. Because it is in our daily life, because it is our every day experience, we end up accepting it. You leave your house mentally prepared. You just deal with it
-Meriem Manar, a student in Tunis
(via ivyandthewall)