Fatema Mernissi Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer.”
-- Fatema Mernissi

#Prayer #Religion #Use
“Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.”
-- Fatema Mernissi

#Powerful #Luxury #Pessimism
“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 at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.”
-- Fatema Mernissi

#Stars #Water #Swim
“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 their generosity and their desire to do better.”
-- Fatema Mernissi

#Prayer #Believe #Communication
“Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216”
-- Fatema Mernissi

#Maturity #Feelings #Caress
“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 modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.”
-- Fatema Mernissi

#Beautiful #Children #Wall
“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.”
-- Fatema Mernissi

#Eye #Frozen #Slave

Top 13 Quotes By Fatema Mernissi A Z Quotes

Top 10 Fatema Mernissi Quotes 2021 Update Quotefancy

You may also like:

Ahdaf Soueif
Novelist
Alaa Al Aswany
Writer
Amin Maalouf
Author
Anwar Sadat
Former President of Egypt
Assia Djebar
Novelist
Hanan al-Shaykh
Author
J. P. Donleavy
Novelist
J.M.G. Le ClÃ©zio
Writer
Joseph Mitchell
Writer
Kent Haruf
Novelist
Laila Lalami
Novelist
Mariama BÃ¢
Author
Naguib Mahfouz
Film writer
Nawal El Saadawi
Writer
Paul Bowles
Composer
Susan Sontag
Writer
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Writer
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Author
Yasmina Khadra
Author
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Writer