1 | "I don't want people to call her (her daughter) a bastard and abuse my brothers.My brothers won't have honour in our society until he marries me," she says. | |
2 | Do not feed people who insult you with comebacks or satisfy them with your discontent. | |
3 | 但是,我们的大脑还没进化到如此考虑陌生人的地步,所以我们才会枉费心机地一而再、再而三地琢磨着:这些辱骂若是传入别人耳中,他们会不会信以为真呢? But our minds are not evolved to think about strangers, and we obsess, needlessly, about what people think of us and how these insults will diminish us in the eyes of others. | |
4 | Which is why I sometimes go into the garden and insult the weeds. | |
5 | "She' s always been extremely abusive of me and my siblings, " she said, as I recall. "Once, on my birthday, she left me a message wishing that I get a disease. |