Freedom is intoxicating:
For one 22-year-old medical student, university wasn’t just a few years of her life, but her only opportunity to live out her entire life. “I only chose to study medicine,” she says, “because the course is longer. I wanted to be away from home for longer. I know I have to live out my whole life in the span of my five-year degree because once I get home, it’s back to being under my parents’ thumb. Some girls here have made major life changes and intend to stick by them once their degree ends but that’s impossible for me. My parents tried to make my older sister marry someone she didn’t want to and she eventually ran away. That meant that their grip over me tightened considerably. It is suffocating.”
When oppressed people taste freedom, some may go back, but in the long term the oppressors will lose, either by adapting or losing all of their power.
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