"I have a delicate face, but my beard grows. I have benefited from the laws of inheritance that gives men privileges over women...I would like to leave this house without having the slightest trace of the past follow me. I would like to leave so that I might be born again...rid forever of these lies." -Amhed, The Sand Child, page 119
Tahar Ben Jelloun and The Sand Child
Presentation by Antoinette S. Melvin
"I have a delicate face, but my beard grows. I have benefited from the laws of inheritance that gives men privileges over women...I would like to leave this house without having the slightest trace of the past follow me. I would like to leave so that I might be born again...rid forever of these lies."
-Amhed, The Sand Child, page 119