"The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men."

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Source : "Remembering Islamic Feminist Fatema Mernissi". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.

Fatema Mernissi

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“Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.”
“I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.”
“The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.”
“I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30”
“The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they all portray the break up of the self and, through the rearrangement and reassemble of the fragments, try to create new structures that possess wholeness, perfection, new meaning.”
“About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.”
“I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.”
“I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.”

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