Taslima Nasrin quotes

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions. (Taslima Nasrin)
[Women in Islamic countries] are exposed to male domination as a rule rather than as an exception... If anyone protests... as I have done, you are sure to be branded as a witch... What I demand is freedom for women from male domination and a uniform code... It that can be construed as blasphemy, I cannot help it. View quote
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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges. View quote
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years. View quote
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture. View quote
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home. View quote
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism. View quote
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I was born in a Muslim family and Muslim women suffer under Islam. View quote
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The Islam religion and their scriptures are out of place and out of time. It still follows the 7th century laws and is hopeless. The need of the hour is not reformation but revolution. View quote
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Lajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don't happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity. View quote
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Many of my books are banned in Bangladesh. My book was banned in West Bengal too. Its government not only banned my book, it forced me to leave the state too. The new government ban­ned the release of my book Nir­basan in 2012 and a few months ago forced a TV channel called Akash Ath to stop telecast of a mega serial I wrote. The serial was about women's struggle and how three sisters living in Calcutta fight aga­inst patriarchal oppression to live their lives with dignity and honour. She (Mamata Banerjee) ban­ned me to app­ease some misogynist mullahs. (Taslima Nasrin)
Every ban and censorship hurt. But banishment hurts the most. Banishment took away the ground from beneath my feet. What I need now most is a firm footing to stand up somewhere to fight for the freedom of expression. I was banished from both East and West Bengal. View quote
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We have praised Taslima for speaking for Muslim women who do not have many spokesmen in the Muslim world. But her real glory is that she has also spoken for the persecuted Hindus in her country - for whom no one speaks, not even the Hindus. View quote
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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended. View quote
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home. View quote
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! View quote
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country. View quote
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law. View quote
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. View quote
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist. View quote
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. (Taslima Nasrin)
I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books. View quote
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? View quote
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate. View quote
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. View quote
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