Mona Eltahawy Quotes

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

My nature is feminist. How could you not be a feminist and be alive? The world is full of brilliant, interesting women.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.

I tell you that men will always respect women when they compel it by their actions; and if women today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation the men would be compelled to grant it. The women of the country have the power in their hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.

If, by some miracle, women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition, there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved.

Feminism has always been a theme that I'm very interested in.

I'm very much a girls' girl and a real feminist.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.

It's not good enough to believe women matter if they only matter in the U.K. They have to matter everywhere. As long as there's an idea that women don't matter in the world, then all women are diminished.

I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013.

The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

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.