Mrs. Salwa Mahmasani Mawsili

The first man my eyes ever beheld was a living example of struggle, sacrifice, dutifulness, and righteousness. I saw him close his eyes upon this life while calling out the names of his children. He taught me that whoever says, "A woman's tenderness toward her children is stronger than a man's," is mistaken, and cannot reach into the depths of a man's heart to measure the strong emotions latent there.

And the man who accompanies me through life has the greatest influence upon my soul. He has confirmed my faith in the moral powers a man enjoys, contend-ing with life's hardships with vigor and resolve, consecrating his efforts to the good with a selflessness, a tenderness, and a sincerity that call forth admira-tion and esteem.

And whoever accuses man of selfishness and cruelty is, with-out doubt, utterly remote from the truth.

Mrs. Klouz

Man fills that great emptiness which a woman finds within herself when she lacks the companionship she dreams of and longs to obtain. He satisfies that natural longing which makes her feel her need of protection, care, and gentleness. The unmarried woman lacks companionship, and at the same time she feels a deficiency in her nature and her spirit. Woman needs protection and help, and I believe she needs the presence of someone she loves, on whom she can depend, and whose love for her she can feel — and this is entirely natural.

Many of those who have not mar-ried grow fond of keeping animals such as dogs and cats. But the married woman feels that the part of herself which so long yearned for someone to love has been filled and set at rest. I believe, too, that woman needs man on the intellec-tual side, to stimulate her thinking and her doings, and to balance her.

Mrs. Ibn Rahma

Man and woman are each the complement of the other, and life is not fulfilled without their coopera-tion. There are many women who, without marriage, enjoy a full and contented life; but with marriage one side of life is filled to complete fullness. And what is beyond doubt is that by her marriage a woman leans upon a pillar on which to rest, for he is her best helper in her loneliness, above all as age advances.

Miss Zahia Kaddoura

Although a girl is, more often than not, bruised in her life, this does not mean that man is always the one to blame, or that he is not fit to be relied upon. I believe that mar-riage is necessary for every girl, because it is her greatest support in life. Over the years I have had loyal friends among my brethren and companions at the university, on whose friendship I have relied — a friendship by which man proves that he can be a sincere friend to woman, whereas woman is incapable of this toward woman.

Miss Aisha Mahmoud Mar'i

God created Eve only to be the completing half of the poem of life, and He created the father of mankind before her only because he is the first half of that poem, charged with paving the way of goodness and right guidance for his awaited Eve: he leads her and she follows him, enlightened by his opinion, guided by his guidance, building her hopes and her wishes

upon an edifice which he has propped up by his activity and diligence, and adorned by his toil and effort...

That was in the past, when Adam was, in Eve's eyes, perfection embodied and virtue gathered together... Today Adam is other than he was yesterday, and consequently Eve too — for is she not Adam's image reflected in the mirror of life?... He spoke truly who said: "People have their different ways in what they love." The man in my life is not, as most people suppose, a man molded out of matter in the cast of conventions and then painted over with the assorted counterfeit varnishes of "etiquette"... He is not one whom at first glance I would take for an elegant lady, nor one in whose tones of voice I would discern a graceful girl, nor one who sings the verses of Alfred de Musset and Lamartine while knowing nothing whatever of al-Mutanabbi and Abu al-Ala, nor is he one of those who keep company with the cup so as to be counted among "those people"...!!

The real man, in my eyes, is he in whom a woman feels there is a man, with all the meanings of manhood in him, nearer to the natural roughness in him than to conventional politeness. Man loves femininity because God set this feeling in his heart to complete the making of the universe — not so that he might assume this quality himself and thereby lose the very quality that woman loves in him..... — The real man is he who finds his own happiness in the happiness of his family, seeing his home as his Kaaba, and his work as the means of bringing happiness to that sacred Kaaba.

And he is the sociable man, not the chatterer; the patriot, not the babbler; moderate in his affairs, not given to excess...