'Is this what I get from you? I understand you see me as guilty. You attribute these things to me, but is it fitting for a chieftain like you to take out your pain on a woman? Is this the justice you will bring to this village? Will you rule by oppressing the innocent? Is this how you will set an example? Will you tell people to take their anger out on those they can overpower?' I wanted to say, but I couldn't. What would have happened if I did? Wouldn't the man who threw me at his mother's feet now throw me out of the house? What could have prevented that? No one would say the man threw out a woman. Everyone would say who knows what disgraceful thing she did, and everyone would look at my father and brothers to cleanse their honor. This couldn't be called living, perhaps, but I was too yo
