Very content.
7) In Plato's Republic.
8) The hour of my arrival back home after having left it for the first time.
9) My little sisters: educate yourselves, then educate yourselves, then educate yourselves.
10) The steadfast one, who appreciates God's blessing and sees beauty in everything.
Miss Nihad al-Orfali
1) I would open with it an institute for the upbringing of small children no more than four years old, because of their scarcity in Iraq.
2) An active member of the charitable associations.
3) I would write about al-Buhturi.
4) Simplicity, gentleness, femininity, honesty, sincerity, and cheerfulness.
5) The study of child psychology.
6) I am content to be a woman.
7) I choose Iraq, my birthplace.
8) The hour in which I shall be happy has not yet struck.
10) That he be an emancipator of woman, highly cultured, lofty in morals, and not less than I in learning or in degrees.
Miss Aisha Fouad Bondok
1) I would buy a plot of land in some quarter other than Sanayeh, to be made into a public garden set aside for the recreation of children.
2) I wish for a future that fits me for the service of society.
3) I would choose to write the biography of the Prophet Muhammad.
4) Learning, tenderness, modesty, virtue, kindness, purity.
5) The lessons are all equal in importance to me, but the most important for a girl is household management.
• Miss Aisha Fouad Bondok •
6) Yes, I am content, out of loyalty to my sex.
7) I would choose none other than my homeland, Lebanon.
8) The hour Lebanon won its independence.
9) That they learn, and take part in raising the standing of woman.
10) I prefer that he be cultured.
Miss Fadila al-Hariri
1) This question has cost me deep thought without my arriving at a solution; it appears that surplus money begets weariness of mind and anxiety — so I return it whence it came.
2) I wish for a quiet future in the bosom of a happy family.
3) If I were given the choice of writing the biography of a genius, I would choose al-Ma'arri.
4) The qualities of the ideal woman, in my view, are modesty — sincerity — self-sacrifice.
5) Physical training is the most important lesson to me.
6) Unhappily, in my present surroundings I would prefer to be a young man, for I see that the freedom granted to them exceeds a girl's freedom in every sense of the word.
7) I see no necessity whatever for existence in this life.
8) The happy hour I dream of has not yet struck.
10) I prefer to have a companion with an iron will.
Miss Huda Farraj
1) I would buy the clothes and books I want, and give the rest to the Arab Orphan Home at Deir Amr.
2) I wish myself a quiet, scholarly future in a quiet house with a quiet person.
3) I think I would write "the life of Beethoven," or the life of "Socrates."
4) That she be calm of temper, sincere and tender, educated and well-mannered, and possessed of a capacity for organization.
5) I find no lesson more important than another in my view; each completes the other in the perfecting of culture.
6) I am content to be a girl, so as to carry out the responsibility laid upon woman's shoulders.
7) Palestine is the country in which it was decreed I should be born; it is the one I choose, and I shall never choose another.
8) The hour I was born.
9) My advice to them is "not to take Western civilization wholesale, but to take the best that is in it, and to hold fast to their Arabism."
Miss Labiba al-Husseini
1) I would return it to its owner, because it would trouble me.
2) Founder of an Arab college in Jerusalem.
3) Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri.
4) Sincerity, the culture necessary to