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  • Journalist
  • born 1967
  • 105 quotes

Mona Eltahawy, a journalist (born 1967), is quoted 105 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Muslim, Arab, Saudi and Military.

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I was never one for dolls.

I'm a survivor. I'm a messenger.

I have chosen not to have children.

Being a woman anywhere is dangerous.

Muslim views are not a monolithic blob.

I grew up looking at my parents as equals.

I know Obama knows better than George W. Bush.

As a U.S. citizen, I cherish the First Amendment.

Authenticity has never been Barbie's strong suit.

Selling out Saudi women is an old-established tradition.

The military belongs in its barracks, not our ballot boxes.

Too many have rushed in to explain the Arab world to itself.

The fight against racism must be seen as a revolutionary one.

I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.

Nothing protects women from the patriarchy of military regimes.

Feminism, as I see it, is not about counting women in key jobs.

In 1993, I joined Reuters as a correspondent in its Cairo bureau.

Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.

This ISIS group, they attack Muslims more than they attack anyone else.

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

The Right is incredibly deft at getting earnest about all the wrong things.

To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency.

For most of my life, the U.S. was never anything more than vacation memories.

All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality.

The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.

I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.

Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

I chose to wear the hijab at age 16, soon after my family moved from Britain to Saudi Arabia.

For years, despite my inner doubts, I represented to others my choice to veil as a feminist one.

Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism and militarism are inherently patriarchal and hierarchical.

Saudi Arabia isn't just a conservative country with different values we shouldn't judge. It is a modern Gilead.

Banning hate speech doesn't end racism or antisemitism. Social pressure does that. It becomes socially unacceptable.

As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.

I abhor the rightwing Muslim ideology behind the veils, but I equally abhor the political rightwing xenophobes of Europe.

It is the harassers and assaulters who make us 'look bad,' not the women who have every right to expose crimes against them.

For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.

We are fighting misogynists in every culture. My solution is to listen to the women in each community and amplify their voices.

My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.

We must make sure #MeToo breaks the race, class, gender, and faith lines that make it so hard for marginalized people to be heard.

Too many on the Left are earnest about nothing at all, sadly. They've been rendered spineless by snarkiness - not least on Twitter.

It's one thing to be groped and harassed by passers-by, but when the state gropes you, it gives a green light that you are fair game.

The religious fundamentalists of the Republican party are a mirror image of the religious fundamentalists of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

I will never ally with Islamophobes and racists. But in the choice between 'community' and Muslim women, I will always choose my sisters.

There was always something sickening about tourists taking pictures of themselves posing in front of that big gaping hole called Ground Zero.

While the 2011 revolution did not remove the regime, it has shortened the seemingly endless patience that many Egyptians once had for military rule.

Saudi authorities must launch a campaign about the safety of female pilgrims and the determination of the authorities to ensure every woman's safety.

Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations.

Across the globe, fundamentalists of all religions are on one side, and their attitudes towards women and towards female sexuality are almost identical.

The first time I wore a head scarf, I was 16. I looked and felt like a nun. I missed the wind in my hair. For me, it was not a comfortable thing to wear.

Too often, when Muslim women speak out, some in our 'community' accuse us of 'making our men look bad' and of giving ammunition to right-wing Islamophobes.

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