Feminism Quote by Huda Sharawi

As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be…

— Mona Eltahawy

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin I'm writing to free myself and free women from this prison. My…

— Huda Sharawi

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

— Shereen El Feki

“So effective has their propaganda been that an American official was moved to describe the Brotherhood as “a loose network of secular groups.”27 This…

— John R. Bradley

“Women, on the other hand, were easy targets. Any time things started to go wrong in the Middle East, women suffered for it first.…

— Geraldine Brooks

“The human starts from one. One soul in two bodies. We can’t deny one body and favour another body. As far as my spiritual…

— Huda Sharawi

“women now share the economic burden of their families, very few Egyptian men are prepared to share the housework. To”

— Geraldine Brooks

My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the…

— Vandana Shiva

“The politics of the 1970s were the second factor in this social shift. In his efforts to confront the Nasserite and socialist forces in…

— Tarek Osman

“The devout Islamic woman becomes the antithesis of a certain kind of strident right-wing feminist.”

— Nina Power

Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine.…

— Stacy Schiff

I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to…

— Khaled Hosseini