Salma El-Wardany: Heartbreak Made Me Whole Again
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I Would Never Travel by Myself
I think we learn these things biosmosis. We'll sort of look at the parent that we share a gender with and sort of think, OK, that's a model of how to behave, I suppose. It was modeled for you as young girl. And I think I got older. I really learned how good it was because I would talk to my girlfriends who would say things like, I would never travel alone or I would never go to cinema by myself. You know, there's so many really damaging kind of societal norms that have fed into our perception of what it is to be a woman. Reading screams at us don't be an old maid by yourself. Whereas men can be
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