Quote by Jenny Nordberg

“Afghanistan, believed by anthropologists to be one of the original historical meeting places between the East and the West, has in fact seen and…

— Jenny Nordberg

“In Afghanistan, not much is for certain other than an open sky and eventual death. In between the two is family.”

— Jenny Nordberg

“Since many donor countries required development projects—from agriculture to politics—to consider specifically how the lives of Afghan women were to be improved, Kabul had…

— Jenny Nordberg

“The harem could not be supervised by men because they posed a potential threat to the women’s chastity and the king’s bloodline. These women…

— Jenny Nordberg

“Nancy had neither seen nor heard of girls who dressed as boys and could think of no documentation on the topic through all her…

— Jenny Nordberg

“Tell me,” I ask Siddiqua, “what is the secret to being married for so long?” She looks at me like I am clueless. “It’s…

— Jenny Nordberg

“She could be dismissed as a dokhtar zai, or “she who only brings daughters.” Still, this is not as grave an insult as what…

— Jenny Nordberg

“Those hundreds of “gender projects” funded by aid money might have been more effective if they had also included men. The fact that Westerners…

— Jenny Nordberg

“In Pashto, Afghanistan’s second official language, there is even a deprecating name for a man who has no sons: He is a meraat, referring…

— Jenny Nordberg

“It is not just a human rights argument, it is the Warren Buffett argument and the Christine Lagarde argument: Countries that want to develop…

— Jenny Nordberg

“Louis Duprée described this contradiction in his work on Afghanistan: “Islam, in essence, is not a backward, anti-progressive, anti-modern religion, although many of its…

— Jenny Nordberg

“When one gender is so unwanted, so despised, and so suppressed in a place where daughters are expressly unwanted, perhaps both the body and…

— Jenny Nordberg