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

— Amīnah al-Saʿīd

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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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