her, and her understanding of her responsibility.

5) Child psychology (because the future of the country depends on the child).

6) Yes, content.

7) Switzerland.

8) An hour I spent in Cairo.

9) Knowledge, discernment, avoidance of extremes, and following reason, not emotion.

10) The one at whose side I can realize my hopes.

Miss Mutia Deeb

1) I would go to America.

2) To be an ideal housewife.

3) I would write the biography of Dr. Taha Hussein Bey.

6) I am content to be a girl, because if I were given the same opportunities that are given to a young man, I could do works perhaps greater than the works a young man does.

Miss Rose Murad

1) I would spend it on compulsory education.

3) Florence Nightingale, for her risks and her self-sacrifice.

4) Preserving her femininity, cultured, modest.

5) World history.

6) I am proud to be a girl, because of the greatness of my responsibility in life.

Miss Najwa Mustafa al-Sayyid

4) The ideal woman is she who is adorned with sincerity, chastity, virtue, purity, and true love.

6) Since a girl has the same mind a young man has, and since, if she is educated, she can do the same works he does — why should I prefer to be a young man!!!

8) Whatever answer I give — frankly, I say that I shall not be frank, because I consider it personal, and I must leave it alone.

9) I have three counsels: 1 — unveiling for Muslim women; 2 — self-reliance in all matters; 3 — being on guard against the young men of this age.

Miss Majida Makki al-Orfali

1) I would give it to the Ministry of Education.

3) Muhammad the Prophet, God's blessing and peace be upon him.

4) Her being adorned with love, sincerity, truthfulness, and lofty morals.

5) Literature, because it is the nourishment of mind and heart.

6) No — I would have preferred to be a young man, so that the field of work would be wide open to me.

7) Baghdad, my birthplace, so that I might reform it.

8) The hour of my acceptance at the American College in Beirut.

9) That they preserve their femininity, seek learning, and adorn themselves with lofty morals.

Miss Madiha al-Azzawi

1) How lovely, if only it came true!...

2) A woman of influence on the martial-law council.

3) Bidpai the philosopher.

4) Sedateness when walking down the street.

5) The psychology of men.

7) The Hawaiian Islands.

8) The most beautiful hour has not yet passed, and I am waiting for it.

9) Eat, drink, and sing, for tomorrow is yesterday.

8) The hour I thought I understood.

9) Striving after high culture.

10) He is the one to whom, when I bring my grievance, I find him a mirror of my own self.

Miss Suad Abu al-Huda

1) I would divide it in two: I would spend one half on a journey to somewhere, and the other on charitable projects.

2) To live at the side of someone who understands me and gives me freedom enough to realize

the hopes I hold within me for my country.

3) Al-Mutanabbi.

4) The woman who can make her husband and her children happy.

5) The science of health.

6) Yes, I am content.

7) I would choose — "rather that I be an Englishwoman than an emigrant Arab woman."

9) That they be practical, sincere, and frank, and know their duties.

10) The cultured man who values woman: frank, upright, calm of nerve, loving his work, his home, and his children.

Miss Isam Mudar

1) I would present it to my first school, the Kfarshima National School, to put up its building.

2) President of charitable projects.

3) Wadih Sabra.

5) Psychology.

6) Without doubt I prefer to be a girl.

7) My country, though it wrong me, is dear, And my people, though they begrudge me, are noble.

8) That longed-for hour has not yet passed.

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