Mona Eltahawy famous quotes
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The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.
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Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.
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I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.
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My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am 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 will ever land.
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I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.
-- Mona Eltahawy
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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When you go out on the mound and you're confident in your body, you feel you can do anything.
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Cloud Foundry is not exciting. What's exciting is what you can do with Cloud Foundry.
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I do what I do because there's nothing else I can do.
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I am only capable of what I allow myself to believe I can do.
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I can do whatever I want.
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There's digital fatigue. When you can do everything, you can actually do nothing.
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Focus on what you can do, then do it with all your heart.
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The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.
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Being a celebrity is like being raped, and there's absolutely nothing a player can do about it.
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