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Mona Eltahawy Quotes

Egyptian - Journalist | August 1, 1967 -

My feminism does not demand that a woman have an equal opportunity to torture, alongside men. Torture is no less wrong because a woman, not a man, carries it out.

Opportunity Men Woman Man Wrong Out

I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by a patriarchy; if they accept, they are nothing short of foot soldiers of that patriarchy and the violence it has instituted.

Women Celebrate Short Violence High

I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting women at the service of patriarchy is no victory for us.

Women Service Perfection Victory Us

Feminism, as I see it, is not about counting women in key jobs.

Women Key Feminism See I See About

Some forms of veil are justified by the idea that you're not tempting men. Well how about men just behaving and keeping their hands to yourselves? How about, instead of criticizing how I dress, respecting me and my right to the public space?

Men Dress Space Me Hands You

Women of color have always been kind of boxed in by the idea that the more you talk about the misogyny of your own community, the more you make that community look bad.

Women Community Color You Look Bad

To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency.

Women Culture Say Patriarchy Agency

I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them and reacting to the agenda they set.

Writing End Up Narrative Avoid Set

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

I Am Moral Dictator Amnesia Am Dies

We are fighting misogynists in every culture. My solution is to listen to the women in each community and amplify their voices.

Women Community Culture Fighting

I grew up looking at my parents as equals.

Parents Looking Up Equals Grew

This ISIS group, they attack Muslims more than they attack anyone else.

Group More Attack Than Else Anyone

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