A woman is not supposed to speak, a woman is not supposed to contradict, and a woman isnot allowed to forget that she is an object in a sentence rather than its main subject.
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(it's no coincidence that the majority of Turkic patronymics contain the word kizi, "daughter," and oğlu, "son," in the proper order) but you are a daughter until your very death and you are a son who represents the family line.
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Life in the community was reminiscent of a reality show with constant video surveillance: no action, word, or undertaking went unnoticed.
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In the world where I grew
up, gazes penetrated every little corner. The evil eye, the neighbors' eyes, the relatives' eyes, the random pedestrian's eyes, the unscrupulous men's eyes. the women's unhappy eyes.
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It's interesting that I was the lone child in our large family to wear glasses. That was why Bibi firmly decided the books were to blame, since I read too many of them.
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The evil eve explained nearly any unhappiness in a home and was to blame for any calamity that came about.
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In addition to th little eyes, there was also uzerlik', a plant that made a house a home. As soon as the last guest closed the door behind them, my mother would take out a generous bunch of uzerlik and burn it in a special vessel.
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My eyes only
lightened during moments of despair, as if suffering were a
bleach, the price to be paid for the "beautiful."
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It turned out that the Earth had been poisoned to its very core after the decaying bodies of former colonizers managed to pass on their standards to the world, whereby everything blue was beautiful but brown was hideous.
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Chapter 1 - Eyebrows

"...I realized that eyebrows are comparable to life experience and cannot be identical. There is always something in them from the woman they belong to."

In small mountain settlements, the eyebrows were first and foremost in differentiating an innocent, unmarried young woman from a woman who had already married.

- My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova translated by Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social

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My Dreadful Body, chapter I: Eyebrows. “My brows seemed to expand daily, occupying more and more space between my eyelids. If my girlfriends had something like pale vines, then I had the huge dark wings of a mountain bird.” Been there! 📚🤨 #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody #WomenInTranslation

The implication being the heroines of Ganjavi's poems resemble one another?
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And that's how my black eyebrows answered my question.
... They were now harbingers of tremendous misfortune, a red fare on the high seas. Someone who could interpret all this had finally appeared.
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"Botox won't help you, too much has been affected."
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Did a resemblance of faces result in a resemblance of fates? Were there similar fates for the heroines of Nizami Ganjavi's poems?
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