The women are at an advantage - we represent the buying power in this country.
I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.
Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.
We need to stop objectifying our women in what we call our second religion... Our films. And our TV shows.
Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any...
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.
So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.
