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maggiecarr 's review for:
The Whale Rider
by Witi Ihimaera
Read Harder Challenge 2019: An #OwnVoices Book Set In Oceania
Nanny Flower's is my hero, standing up to her husband/chief like that so many times over...
""Sit down," a chief had yelled, enraged. "Sit down," because women weren't supposed to stand up and speak on sacred ground. But Mihi had replied, "No, you sit down! I am a senior line to yours!" Not only that, but Mihi had then turned her back to him, bent over, lifted her petticoats, and said, "Anyway, here is the place where you come from!" That was Mihi's way of reminding the chief that all men are born of women."
Nanny Flower's is my hero, standing up to her husband/chief like that so many times over...
""Sit down," a chief had yelled, enraged. "Sit down," because women weren't supposed to stand up and speak on sacred ground. But Mihi had replied, "No, you sit down! I am a senior line to yours!" Not only that, but Mihi had then turned her back to him, bent over, lifted her petticoats, and said, "Anyway, here is the place where you come from!" That was Mihi's way of reminding the chief that all men are born of women."