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 mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
“If your idea disturbs a conservative man, hang onto it," I said to myself. "It will probably lead to important discoveries.” — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
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… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
“Once I asked Mina why she danced so smoothly while most of the other women made abrupt, jerky movements, and she said that many… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
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… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me. — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216 — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
“Mothers should tell little girls and boys about the importance of dreams,' Aunt Habiba said. 'They give a sense direction. It is not enough… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
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… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
I, as a Muslim woman living in 1993, I want to have two things - the mosque and the satellite, both at the same… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
