Mona Eltahawy Quotes

#1. I do wonder, sometimes, if I had had a daughter, how I would have brought her up. How - when it's taken me so long to unlearn the things I believe are most damaging to the cause of women's liberation and equality - would I have raised my daughter to disobey?

Mona Eltahawy

#2. But it is the job of a revolution to shock, to provoke, and to upset, not to behave or to be polite.

Mona Eltahawy

#3. The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.

Mona Eltahawy

#4. Being a woman anywhere is dangerous.

Mona Eltahawy

#5. I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.

Mona Eltahawy

#6. I believe it's the writer's job to tell society what it pretends it doesn't know.

Mona Eltahawy

#7. A male editor I once worked with tried to dissuade me from the personal: "Who care about what happened to you?" The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.

It does.

Mona Eltahawy

#8. The battles over women's bodies can be won only by a revolution of the mind

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#9. The presence of real love in the world inspires me.

Krishna Das

#10. To the girls of the Middle East: Be immodest, rebel, disobey, and know you deserve to be free

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#11. Equality is a practice, it's not just about words,

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#12. I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house ... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

David Byrne

#13. Why were women alone responsible for sheltering men from the sexual desires women supposedly elicited in men? Why could men not control themselves? Why, if men were the ones being tempted, were they not the ones being policed?

Mona Eltahawy

#14. Now that I'm older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you'll ever land

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#15. Misogyny has not been completely wiped out anywhere. Rather, it resides on a spectrum, and our best hope for eradicating it globally is for each of us to expose and to fight against local versions of it, in the understanding that by doing so we advance the global struggle.

Mona Eltahawy

#16. We will have a reckoning with our culture and religion, with military rulers and Islamists - two sides of one coin. Such a reckoning is essentially a feminist one. And it is what will eventually free us. Women - our rage, our tenacity, our daring and audacity - will free our countries.

Mona Eltahawy

#17. Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

Jon Lovitz

#18. We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

Pope Paul VI

#19. I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

Julia Kent

#20. To be "out of touch" with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.

Mona Eltahawy

#21. Why is violence significantly less traumatizing than our naked bodies?

Mona Eltahawy