A Quote of A Quote

I love this quote of a quote from Wendy Shalit's book Return to Modesty (pg. 131)

“As one 27 year-old Orthodox woman put it to me, with a toss of her long black hair, “there is a saying that goes Einb’not yisrael hefker. It means that the daughters of Israel are not available for public use.”

I really like that young woman’s quote. So many young women are more than willing to share their bodies with anyone who asks. You see, I watched a movie awhile back called, Watch Jane Date. I thought, since it was an ABC Family movie that it would be clean. Well, while it was in spots, funny (yet painful), it was not clean. Jane, the main character goes so far is to sleep with someone on the first date and then is devastated that things don’t work out with him. Say what? The reasoning behind that boggles my mind. When we treat ourselves cheaply, we should be surprised when other people do the same, should we? They are only following our example.

I just finished reading Return to Modesty and would highly recommend it. Wendy Shalit is very easy to read.