A few hours ago I was sitting with my mother-in-law, wife and two daughters. I was like, jeez, I'm surrounded by some damn intelligent females.
My mother-in-law has 5 degrees in subjects as varied as Mandarin and Economics, my wife graduated from Oxford, my eldest daughter is perhaps the youngest person ever to have attained 5 A*s in her IGCSEs (16+ exams), when she was 12, and my youngest daughter is likely the youngest girl ever to have achieved an A* in Maths IGCSE, which she did when she was 8.
I then thought if you add the women in my birth family - my mother, who attained a scholarship to each of the several high schools she attended, and my sister, also an Oxford grad, I have been dealing with intelligent women all my life!
It hit me that none of them are as obsessed as most women I know about how they look, even though one was a part-time model. They like to look nice, but it's a minor aspect of their lives.
We live in a world where the media, and men in general, strongly encourage women to value their physical appearance more than anything else.
But these women value their minds most. That's a good thing, and it has been key to their achievements.
-Asim Qureshi
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