Nazanin Boniadi Quotes

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

Unless the woman is liberated, there is no freedom in Iraqi land.

The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.

The world remains a very hostile place for women in many corners of the globe. As such, we should all strive to battle such injustices wherever these might occur.

Girls were nothing in the '70s.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

Women have not had their rights come easily.

In the State of Israel, there are still women who suffer mental and physical violence just because they are women. Many people suffer mental and physical violence, but there is a certain section of the population that harasses women because they are women, and we must fight this vigorously. Anyone who infringes on the rights of women or their freedom, or who works to discriminate against women, works against the principles and ideals of the State of Israel.

I got personal satisfaction from making trouble for high-placed sexists and helping less lucky women fight the establishment

The veil is the mask of Egyptian women in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men…. The veil gives women more power in a man’s world.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

We in the West would be wrong to prolong the pain of that transition unnecessarily, by elevating cultures full of bigotry and hatred towards women to the stature of respectable alternative ways of life.

I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?