Fatema Mernissi Quotes

If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.

Fatema Mernissi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: moroccan
  • Birth: September 27, 1940 - November 30, 2015

Topics

WomenMenConflictProblemTradition

I like 'The Voice.'

Jimmy Iovine

VoiceLike

Time is money in the shipping business.

Ander Crenshaw

BusinessTimeMoneyTime Is Money

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

Jean-Luc Godard

AloneArtTeamworkQuestionsCinema

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

Lucy Larcom

BestChildhoodUnderstandOthersUs

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

Claire Danes

BadDownWantActorBad HabitsSoap

I thought, as a kid, that I was The Doctor's biggest fan, so my mum and dad bought me a battery-operated Dalek. I must have worn it out, I played with it so much.

Bradley Walsh

MeDoctorThoughtKidOutMust

The AICC is full of sycophants, nothing else.

Sharad Pawar

NothingFullElse

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

Justin Townes Earle

MusicBookCountryBluesWantGet

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.

Eva Braun

AloneMomentMeKnowSittingHot

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

Emma Donoghue

WritingBeenSinceFull-Time

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

Elon Musk

GovernmentPotentialYearCreating

San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special.

David Cohen

CommunityGreatYourselfYouTry

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