Quotes On Arab Women
- The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man. Saddam Hussein in Interview with the Al-Mar'a magazine in 1978.
- The ideology or at least the rhetoric of Arab Socialism can be understood from Saddam Hussein's words: The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated…(1981).
- Al-Ali, N. S.,Iraqi Women, 2007, London:Zedbooks
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