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Nabawiyya Musa Quotes

1886–1951

Nabawiyya Mohamed Musa Badawia (Arabic: نبوية موسى محمد بدوية; December 17, 1886 – April 30, 1951) was an Egyptian nationalist and feminist and is recognized as one of the founding feminists of the 20th century in Egypt.

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Since you men claim to be wiser and have better minds than women, then how come you are seduced by seeing their faces.

I preferred to live as master of men, not their servant.

There was no religious prohibition of showing a woman's face, that Egyptian peasants do not cover their faces, and that the white transparent cloth barely covers the face.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nabawiyya Musa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.