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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 Doria Shafik Egyptian Feminist: A Woman apart (1996)

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Nothing really worthwhile can be accomplished without suffering.

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)

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