130 Million Women

    “We were three girls at the same age: my two cousins and myself. It was like a slaughterhouse and the butcher was carrying his knife. He first put my two cousins under the knife and cut a piece of their bodies. When my turn came, he sprayed a topical anesthetic between my legs. True, I did not feel pain, but I did feel the knife cutting a piece of me. I did not feel any pain, but I could hear the sound of the knife cutting something.”
This quote is taken from the testimony of Hala, an Egyptian woman who is over fifty. The testimony was published on the web site of the “Uprising of Women in the Arab World” in 2012, to explain why they have called for an uprising of Arab women in the first place.