Rula Ghani Quotes

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

No one knows what women want!

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

In Saudi society, women are extremely respected. I never had an issue with that at all.

I like men who respect women.

Respecting women is something I've imbibed since childhood.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

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

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

I don't think women in India are vulnerable.