Taslima Nasrin Quotes

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• Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
• It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so…
• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
• I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and…
• Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with a…
• Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
• I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father…
• The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive…
• Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed…
• All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
• I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
• I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
• I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
• It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
• Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an…
• I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I…
• I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need…
• In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts…
• Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me…

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