memoirs of elizabeth gilbert and woman's rights

i read two books of her.mainly eat.pray love and almost done reading the sequence of it. committed. awesome books . is all about women, career, life, love and how we perceive our life. it was fascinating to read her books, to understand her life , love story in which a bit relates to my personal life. i admired her , of her strength to struggle to pursue what life is all about. women nowadays i believe is facing the same too. in her first book, eat.pray.love shows that she struggle to find herself back when she starts to travel around after her relationship failed. her strong will really affected me somehow. i know that in our life we will be confronting a hard times that we cannot even breathe or think and during that time we need someone to be with us. The essence of relationship between people is very much important in order to help us encounter every problem that come. women have to be strong, in reality, though we always become an agenda of debate relating to rights and freedom, women nowadays becoming more matured. the saying that woman is weak is inadequate, we have prove it to the world.

we have a debate in class relating to the saying "behind every successful man there is a woman". i truly believe that the above saying is true ( dont you think so?)..but i just curious why dont people say " behind every successful woman there is a man?" it was bizarre, and i believe that woman doesnt need man's help to survive after all. ( sounds so feminist...hehe). woman perhaps needs man to share, to love, to care but without man, we still can live...frankly speaking, i dont think man can do the same, to some degree, men will live in total lost if there is no woman besides them ( kan...? betol x?). well, dont get yourself perplexed by my thought, i jus wanna share my experience as what i can see most of women success due to her own effort. and...wihout any support from man..a growing number of women today received a higher education and have show capabilites in the work force and still they manage to success in both career and family life. generally, the mentality of the people especially Malays inclined to think that woman has to work only for family, live at home, take care of the children and husband, such perception is totally wrong, Islam assuredly say that woman is responsible in taking care of her husband and be loyal to him, a guardian of his property in other words to serve the husband as required in Islam. that's the role of woman in Islam, Islam doesnt say anything about woman has to take care of all like cooking, do laundry, and whatnot. but the mentality is still presume that woman has to do all kind of job. and it remains until now. to the certain extent, women are self-reliant and strong-minded that what i can say based on what i see.

i have seen many woman survive alone without any support from man but too little that man live alone. ( betol x?...ade ke??)...woman has been integrated into the development process since 1975 under United Nation resolution. Since then, women's interest and need are protected. In Malaysia, women's however is different from one culture to another, the stereotype about the gender is different in accordance to the culture as well as religion itself. as i put myself clear that in Islam, woman's right is protected. no doubt about it. but somehow people's mentality draw a different interpretation about Islam in protecting women's rights. (a very narrow minded people).

With regards to elizabeth's novels, it it astonishingly brilliant when it come to woman's struggle to find a true meaning of life, love in which it is related to our day to day life. i am very enjoy reading it and come to relate between her life and many other women in this world including me. =) two books that really affected me by all means. =) recommended!

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