You're a girl and you'd better not forget that when you cross the threshold of your house men will look askance at you. When you keep on walking down the lane men will follow you and whistle. When you cross the lane and step onto the main road men will revile you, call you a loose woman. If you've no character you'll turn back, and if you have you'll keep on going as you're going now. This poem is written by Taslima Nasrin (<a href="http://www.taslimanasrin.com">http://www.taslimanasrin.com</a>), a Bangladeshi writer. I love her poems, and this is one poem i love the most. Its so inspirational..

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