Doria Shafik Quotes

1908–1975

Doria Shafik (14 December 1908 – 20 September 1975) was an Egyptian feminist, poet and editor, and one of the principal leaders of the women's liberation movement in Egypt in the mid-1940s. As a direct result of her efforts, Egyptian women were granted the right to vote by the Egyptian constitution.

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Nothing really worthwhile can be accomplished without suffering.

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 Egyptian Feminist: A Woman apart (1996)

My life began with the First World War and ever since has been a continual struggle.

Memoirs (1975)

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.

[T]here is a sort of immanent justice, facilitating certain things in compensation for others.

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.

Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (1991)