Mernissi Women Quotes

#1. The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#2. You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

Ashton Kutcher

#3. It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.

Martin Amis

#4. 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

#5. Ignorance' (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and 'Knowledge' (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

Fatema Mernissi

#7. 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

#8. The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!

Bryant McGill

#9. There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible.

Fatema Mernissi

#10. I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

Paulette Goddard

#11. We need to embrace the change that digital connectivity can bring. Now, towns will come alongside places where optical fibre network is present.

Narendra Modi

#12. It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

Alfred Russel Wallace

#13. 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

#14. Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't.

Haruki Murakami

#15. We seem to need the motivation of pain or discomfort to drive us from our current manner of thinking and being to a higher level of reality.

Rand Olson