You're a girl <br /> and you'd better not forget <br /> that when you cross the threshold of your house <br /> men will look askance at you. <br /> <br /> When you keep on walking down the lane <br /> men will follow you and whistle. <br /> <br /> When you cross the lane and step onto the main road <br /> men will revile you, call you a loose woman. <br /> <br /> If you've no character <br /> you'll turn back, <br /> and if you have <br /> you'll keep on going <br /> as you're going now.<br /><br />Taslima Nasrin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/character-13/
