Feminists Quotes



The Ayatollah reverses logic. Iranian feminists protest not because America tells them to but because Iran is terribly discriminatory and cruel to women. Students are dissatisfied because they have been trained as professionals and the government policies do not encourage the kind of economic growth that would be able to employ them.


This quotation not only has historical significance by showing that there was a female involvement in Pan-Arab politics in the 1920s, but has political significance today and it ironically is quoted more by Israeli Defenders than by the opposition to the existence of the Jewish state. Most modern Arab politicians find it not in their political interest to seem to approve of an independent woman having leadership in the Middle East. The Israeli defenders quote it to refute 3 arguments that many political enemies of Israel make: There were no significant number of Jews in Israel until after the Holocaust when the UN decided that they could have Arab land. The land in Israel was seized by the Zionists or ceded to them by the UN and Jews had no legitimate right to any land in the Palestinian area; and that there was no hostility to the Jews until they established a Jewish State in the area. The most damaging fact to the Arab extremist argument. There were so many Jews buying land that there was a movement to try and persuade Arabs not to sell land to Jews and to buy land from Jews.


This quotation illustrates the horror which many society women felt when one of them became a suffragette. Note that the reaction was almost as if Emily had died. This social reaction by other women was emotionally one of the most difficult things with which the suffragette had to cope.