After giving birth, a woman's internal wounds take six months to heal, 12 months for physical recovery, two years for hormonal balance, and up to five years to rediscover her identity. Relationships frequently fail during this time due to a lack of understanding. Be kind and patient with new mothers; they are facing more challenges than it appears.
Every freedom you have as a woman was earned through the sacrifice of women who came before you. You didn’t inherit these rights by luck. Someone marched, protested, and paid a price for them.
RSVP is French for “Répondez s'il vous plaît” which means “respond, please” and literally means “Respond, if it pleases you”. English uses lot of French phrases verbatim. Some of them are :
1. Faux pas (false step)
2. Quelle surprise (what a surprise)
3. À la carte (by the menu card)
4. Bon appétit (good appetite)
5. Résumé (summary)
6. Fait accompli (thing done / done deal)
7. En route (on the way)
8. déjà vu (I have already seen)
9. Au contraire (on the contrary)
10. Enfant terrible (disruptive child)
11. Touché (valid)
12. Voila (there it is)
13. C'est la vie (that is life)
14. Coup d'état (strikeout of the state)
15. Raison d'être (reason to be)
16. Tour de force (feat of strength)
17. Vis-a-vis (face to face)
18. M’aidez (help me) - distress mayday signal
19. Double entendre (double meaning)
20. laissez-faire (allow to do)
We have spent years being told it is “just a period problem” while our skin, our weight, our mood, and our energy were all falling apart. Today, the medical world finally admitted you were right.
PCOS is now PMOS.
“Helping your wife” is such a strange phrase.
If you live in the same house, eat the same food, wear clean clothes from the same laundry, what exactly are you helping with?
You are not helping. You are participating in your own life.
At age 10, she sabotaged her arranged marriage by chewing raw aubergine until her teeth turned jet black.
At age 6, her family held her down for female genital mutilation.
At age 50, Egypt’s government threw her in prison.
From her cell—using a smuggled eyebrow pencil on toilet paper—she founded the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association and ignited a feminist movement across the Arab world.
This is Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021), the godmother of Arab feminism.
Born in a small Egyptian village, she refused to accept a culture that valued boys far above girls. She became a doctor, exposed the horrors of patriarchy in her groundbreaking book Women and Sex, and wrote landmark works like Woman at Point Zero.
Imprisoned under Sadat, censored, threatened with death, and forced into exile, she never stopped fighting—for girls facing FGM and child marriage, for women’s bodies and voices.
She ran for president at 74, wrote over 50 books, and outlived her oppressors.
Her rebellion started with blackened teeth and a defiant smile:
“No. I will choose my own life.”
And she did.
This is the battle we fight with Islamic extremism.