Asma barlas husband quotes

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.

Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.

Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing.

In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.

As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitlerâ€s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom.

I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place.

It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.