Disposition Quote by Asma Barlas

These words that you have heard regarding women in the future Islamic government are all hostile propaganda. In the Islamic Republic women have complete…

— Ayatollah Khomeini

I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to…

— Swanee Hunt

Feminism? The word itself means exactly the same thing to me as the word God does - it's a spirituality that is deeply personal,…

— Amber Tamblyn

I've read the Bible, but I felt like a lot of the Bible was oppressive towards women. Then I read the Quran, and I…

— Robert Webb

As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old…

— Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

I think if we can't use the word feminist, if it's some kind of taboo or dirty word, or means you're ugly, or you're…

— Ani DiFranco

In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society.…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

I don't like that word: feminist.

— Megyn Kelly

But when you only speak using generalizations, you run the danger of denying the specific. In recent decades, millions of people have come to…

— Alice Schwarzer

The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way…

— Hamza Yusuf

Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out…

— Laura Mulvey

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

— Camille Paglia