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'Why do you allow yourselves to be shut up?' 'Because it cannot be helped as they are stronger than women.' 'A lion is stronger than a man, but it does not enable him to dominate the human race. You have neglected the duty you owe to yourselves and you have lost your natural rights by shutting your eyes to your own interests.

— Begum Rokeya Sultana's Dream (1905)

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The more veiled and hidden like a snail in the corners of the house, the more noble he is.

"Why did I come, oh! to this burning world, why was I born in a house with a curtain-veil!"

The opponents of the female education say that women will be unruly...fie ! They call themselves muslims and yet go against the basic tenet of islam which gives equal right to education. If men are not led astray once educated, why should women?

If today I get back with you, our conservative grandmothers will say to other women rebelling against gender injustices, Look, even a rebel like Jainab has also surrendered. I don't believe that only married life can be the ultimate success for women.

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In order to silence the crying children, the people on the street would point their fingers at them and say, "Shut up, look, Mecca is going to Medina, oh!" - The besieged Jujuburis, they are Mecca and Medina!"

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