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Fatema Mernissi Quotes: The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
         

The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.


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Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide.





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