Cultural-revolution Quote by Huda Sharawi

“We must be courageous in speaking out on the issues that concern us: We must not bend under the weight of spurious arguments invoking…

— Nafis Sadik

Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without…

— Shirin Neshat

“Way beyond the calls for equal pay, self-sovereignty, choice, politi­cal, legal and educational equality, as woman we each need to search our souls, grieve…

— Christina Crawford

“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

“A society without the authentic and vibrant influence of women is a society that is not fully alive. A culture lacking the vital creativity…

— Stephen Catanzarite

“Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture…

— Bell Hooks

“Imtiaz Ali slams women:- “I don't like when someone says ‘I am comfortable in my Burqa. I am comfortable in my parda’. It's a…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures…

— Oliver Tambo

“women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness”

— erica jong

“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and…

— Andrea Dworkin

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

“Slowly, it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women—that the desecration of women indicated the failure of human…

— Eve Ensler