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Top 10 Fatema Mernissi Quotes (2025 Update)

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.”

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

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Fatema Mernissi Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Fatema Mernissi Quote: “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 mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.”

5. “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 mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.”

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Fatema Mernissi Quote: “Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.”

6. “Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.”

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Fatema Mernissi Quote: “Morocco is such a beautiful place. It’s incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact.”

7. “Morocco is such a beautiful place. It’s incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact.”

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Fatema Mernissi Quote: “If your idea disturbs a conservative man, hang onto it,” I said to myself. “It will probably lead to important discoveries.”

8. “If your idea disturbs a conservative man, hang onto it,” I said to myself. “It will probably lead to important discoveries.”

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Fatema Mernissi Quote: “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 telling me I cannot have the mosque or the Koran.”

9. “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 telling me I cannot have the mosque or the Koran.”

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Fatema Mernissi Quote: “There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible.”

10. “There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible.”

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Fatema Mernissi Quote: “But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wishes, and create anew.”

11. “But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wishes, and create anew.”

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Fatema Mernissi Quote: “It is our tradition to question everything and everybody, especially the fuqaha and imams. And it is more than ever necessary for us to disinter our true tradition from the centuries of oblivion that have managed to obscure it. But we must also guard against falling into generalizations and saying that all the imams were and are misogynistic. That is not true today and was not true yesterday.”

12. “It is our tradition to question everything and everybody, especially the fuqaha and imams. And it is more than ever necessary for us to disinter our true tradition from the centuries of oblivion that have managed to obscure it. But we must also guard against falling into generalizations and saying that all the imams were and are misogynistic. That is not true today and was not true yesterday.”

— Fatema Mernissi

Fatema Mernissi Quote: “I asked Mina how would I know on which side I stood. Her answer was quick, short, and very clear – If you can’t get out, you are on the powerless side.”

13. “I asked Mina how would I know on which side I stood. Her answer was quick, short, and very clear – If you can’t get out, you are on the powerless side.”

— Fatema Mernissi

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