Aging Quote by Fatema Mernissi

“If your idea disturbs a conservative man, hang onto it," I said to myself. "It will probably lead to important discoveries.”

— Fatema Mernissi

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

“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

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

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

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

I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

— Fatema Mernissi

“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

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

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

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

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the…

— Fatema Mernissi