Meer Ahmed

“If you are creative you must be dissident.”
― Nawal El Saadawi

“Knowledge is the highest form of worship for a Muslim believer.”
― Nawal El-Saadawi, The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World

“Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our equals, stop wearing makeup and polishing your nails. This advice is absurd. Precisely because the idea of femininity is artificially defined by customs and fashion, it is imposed on every woman from the outside[...]. The individual is not free to shape the idea of femininity at will.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.”
― Gloria Steinem, The Trouble With Rich Women