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Doria Shafik
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“My life began with the First World War and ever since has been a continual struggle.”
Doria Shafik (1908–1975) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Memoirs" (1975) as quoted in Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (1991) ed., Nikki R. Keddie, Beth Baron.
“To catch the imponderable thread connecting my... existence to my... past, as well as to my country's history and civilization. The Egypt I knew... was... awakening from a thousand years' sleep, becoming conscious of its long sufferings—that it had rights! And I learned in my... childhood that the Will of woman can supersede the law.”
Doria Shafik (1908–1975) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Memoirs" (1975) as quoted by Cynthia Nelson, Doria Shafik Egyptian Feminist: A Woman apart (1996)
“[N]early all of the difficulties facing Egyptian women centered around polygamy and hasty divorce by men without protection for women and children.”
Doria Shafik (1908–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (1991) ed., Nikki R. Keddie, Beth Baron.
“To Want and To Dare! Never hesitate to act when the feeling of injustice revolts us. To give one's measure with all good faith, the rest will follow as a logical consequence.”
Doria Shafik (1908–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing really worthwhile can be accomplished without suffering.”
Doria Shafik (1908–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetry! My great comfort ... When As a shipwrecked woman on the High Seas Desparing... Overwhelmed by the Tempest ... I do not know from Which illumened Heavens You appeared ...Love ...Beauty I took refuge In your tenderness No longer a Flotsam on the Sea.”
Doria Shafik (1908–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[M]y departure is not running away or an escape but a quest—a conquest, an acquisition of knowledge! I would leave again for Paris! I would have the highest degree in the world. I would arm myself to the teeth, with all the powerful weapons of knowledge! Then and only then would I be able to find the way to freedom.”
Doria Shafik (1908–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the rule of Great Nature makes us understand... that we can have nothing without paying the price, and that the higher the goal, the higher must be the price.”
Doria Shafik (1908–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]here is a sort of immanent justice, facilitating certain things in compensation for others.”
Doria Shafik (1908–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was obvious to me that women representatives were essential in the Parliament. They must not only be present in the legislative chambers when laws concerning them are legislated; but also... involved in writing the laws. ...[T]he only two bills presented in 1923 by Huda Sha'rawi (... for limiting polygamy and ... curbing easy divorce) had long been forgotten; while other laws concerning men were developing and improving... Women as half the nation had to be represented in Parliament, and justly protected. ...Women should have an equal say in the laws that... affect them and their children. The only solution was to build... a Feminist Union to demand political rights...”
Doria Shafik (1908–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (1991) ed., Nikki R. Keddie, Beth Baron.