I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

- Fatema Mernissi

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.

- Fatema Mernissi

Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are good, that you can awaken …

- Fatema Mernissi

By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the moder…

- Fatema Mernissi

Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up …

- Fatema Mernissi

One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mother…

- Fatema Mernissi

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 in…

- Fatema Mernissi

I, as a Muslim woman living in 1993, I want to have two things - the mosque and the satellite, both at the same time. And no one can mutilate me by t…

- Fatema Mernissi

Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.

- Fatema Mernissi