Mona Eltahawy Quotes

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

On campuses, where Liberal softies still rule with an iron fist, feminism is as safe as a city with no women drivers. That is the only thing I support about Saudi Arabia, by the way.

Girls were nothing in the '70s.

If you think about 'The Pill' by Loretta, that was totally blacklisted back then. But she revolutionized and liberated a generation of women - country listeners and beyond - that were sort of in that box and were able to break out of it.

Things were so much better in the 1970s, when I was a young women undergraduate at Yale. I am grateful to have come of age during that period.

Our long history of exploiting women's bodies and suppressing their voices had a direct impact on my case and other women's lives.

'Handmaid's' is the most profound television I've had the privilege to be a part of.

If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.

The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human.

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed at men they came in contact with, because it had been pent up too long - women now come from a new position of easier, more comfortable self-affirmation and empowerment. Women are given to tolerance and are more able to love. I hope it happens also to men.

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

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.