INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY - 8th September

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"I know you're still young, but I want you to understand and learn this now, he (the girl's father) said.  Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very, very bright girl. Truly, you are. You can be anything you want, Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducted, Laila. No chance."

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

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