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> [“Mothers should tell little girls and boys about the importance of dreams,' Aunt Habiba said. 'They give a sense direction. It is not enough to reject this courtyard--you need to have a vision of the meadows with which you want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/mothers-should-tell-little-girls-and-boys-about-the-importance-of/)

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> [“If your idea disturbs a conservative man, hang onto it," I said to myself. "It will probably lead to important discoveries.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/if-your-idea-disturbs-a-conservative-man-hang-onto-it-i-said-to/)

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> [Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/morocco-is-such-a-beautiful-place-it-s-incredibly-beautiful-and-also/)

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> [“Once I asked Mina why she danced so smoothly while most of the other women made abrupt, jerky movements, and she said that many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/once-i-asked-mina-why-she-danced-so-smoothly-while-most-of-the-other/)

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> [One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/one-cannot-understand-what-s-happening-to-women-in-the-middle-east-if/)

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> [Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/being-frozen-into-the-passive-position-of-an-object-whose-very/)

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> [By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/by-putting-the-spotlight-on-the-female-child-and-framing-her-as-the/)

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> [I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/i-am-intelligent-enough-to-be-critical-towards-the-west-and-take-what/)

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> [Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/maturity-is-when-you-start-feeling-the-motion-of-zaman-time-as-if-it/)

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> [“Mothers should tell little girls and boys about the importance of dreams,' Aunt Habiba said. 'They give a sense direction. It is not enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/mothers-should-tell-little-girls-and-boys-about-the-importance-of/)

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> [Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/someone-else-is-going-to-read-for-me-or-go-at-my-place-to-the-mosque/)

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> [I, as a Muslim woman living in 1993, I want to have two things - the mosque and the satellite, both at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/i-as-a-muslim-woman-living-in-1993-i-want-to-have-two-things-the/)

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> [The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/the-most-precious-gift-god-gave-humans-is-reason-its-best-use-is-the/)

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> [The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatema-mernissi/the-real-mistake-of-women-was-to-let-the-memoir-the-collective-the/)

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