No more than secretaries toeing the line and being assigned tasks instead of acting like ministers capable of initiating policies. - Aisha Rateb

To get my rights. I joined Huda Shaarawy’s association and other associations that were fighting for women’s rights. I was then only 21 but to no avail.

A ban on entering the judiciary based on gender goes against Section forty

I was the second Arab female ambassador after King Hassan’s sister. I was also not the first Egyptian ambassador to Europe; I was preceded by Hatshepsut, Nefertari and Nefertiti, those Egyptian queens who are well known the world over.