Fatima Mernissi Quotes

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.

It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.

The issue [abortion] has come to symbolize what role women are going to play in American society. It's about power as much as anything else.

The creation of a peaceful and sustainable world civilization will be impossible without the full participation of women in every arena of human activity.36 While this proposition is increasingly supported, there is a marked difference between intellectual acceptance and its implementation.

In the early days of Islam, women were much more socially and politically active than they are today.

I not only advocate it now, but have advocated it earnestly for the last fifty years. As to the militant suffragettes, I have noted that many women believe in militant methods. You might advocate one way of securing the rights and I might advocate another, they both might help to bring about the result desired. To win freedom always involves hard fighting. I believe in women doing what they deem necessary to secure their rights.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

Progress is being made, but a lot of women are realizing it is not what they envisioned.