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

— Doria Shafik Doria Shafik Egyptian Feminist: A Woman apart (1996)

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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.

[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)

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It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

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