"Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave."

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Source : Fatema Mernissi (2001). “Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

Fatema Mernissi

#Eye Quotes #Frozen Quotes #Slave Quotes

“To be considered a celebrity, there's a certain lifestyle that comes with that.”
“I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.”
“I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.”

Source : "The Alien Critic" Journal, August 1973.
“Art is a journey of discovery.”
“Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.”
“The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved...”
“What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?”

Source : "Goldberg wrestling for fun". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.
“I would say it's always been in me to want to have victorious songs. I sort of want my songs to have a feeling of victory, but through a lot of pain. Like, you're 75 percent to the top of the mountain and sometimes you fall back to the bottom, but hopefully by the end of the record you'll feel like there's no mountain at all.”

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