Someone else is going
Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn’t take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. Fatema Mernissi
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Morocco is such a
Morocco is such a beautiful place. It’s incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. Fatema Mernissi
Maturity is when you
Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216 Fatema Mernissi
I, as a Muslim
I, as a Muslim woman living in 1993, I want to have two things – the mosque and the satellite, both at the same time. And no one can mutilate me by telling me I cannot have the mosque or the Koran. Fatema Mernissi
Pessimism is the luxury
Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful. Fatema Mernissi
Being frozen into the
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave. Fatema Mernissi
I am intelligent enough
I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me. Fatema Mernissi
One cannot understand what\’s
One cannot understand what’s happening to women in the Middle East if they don’t realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of. Fatema Mernissi
Nature is woman\’s best
Nature is woman’s best friend,’ she [Yasmina] often said. ‘If you’re having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That’s how a woman cures her fears’. Fatema Mernissi
By putting the spotlight
By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant’s nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips … Read more