"Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the ***** was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture."

-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Egypt Quotes #Circumcision Quotes #Culture Quotes

“The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?”
“Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.”

Source : "Significance of Secularism: Atheism is a Way of Live". The Atheist, Vol. 28-29, (p. 43), 1996.
“No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.”
“Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.”
“You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.”
“There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization”
“We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.”
“You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.”

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