"To return to the physical peculiarities. The women are perhaps more singular in appearance than the men. Up to the age of fifteen or sixteen, most Somali girls are pleasing, if not very fairly good-looking ; their figures are straight, and they are well limbed ; there is, however, too much squareness about the shoulders and a want of shapeliness about the lower part of the legs, not at all modified by an ungainly lounging gait. Marriage soon deprives the female sex of all attractiveness, and the decrepit Somali woman is a loathsome and too common spectacle. "
- John W. Kirk
- John W. Kirk
From: A Grammar of the Somali Language: With Examples in Prose and Verse and an Account of the Yibir and Midgan Dialects
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