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Amīnah al-Saʿīd Quotes

1914–1995 Egypt

Amīnah al-Saʿīd also known as Amīnah Saʻīd (1914–1995; Arabic: أمينة السعيد) was an Egyptian journalist and women's rights activist. She founded Egypt's first women's magazine and was the first woman magazine editor in the Middle East.

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Women have been subject, more than men, to the pressures of ignorance, poverty, and general backwardness.

If we truly wish to preserve our leadership in our greater nation, it is not right to confine our efforts to ourselves.

If we look at women as a group which represents half the Arab nation, we cannot help but admit that this group is the weakest area of our social body.

Whenever I visit a foreign country for the first time, I compare the status of women there with the status of our women, and from this I derive a comparison of the place of the modern Egyptian woman in the pageant of world civilization.

Whenever I go to the region of our Arab brothers and sisters, I find afflicted women. They fervently desire to follow our example and would benefit greatly if we took them by the hand in their striving to achieve a better life.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amīnah al-Saʿīd (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.