Now i had learnt that honor required large sums of money to protect it, but that large sums of money could not be obtained without losing one's honor… - Nawal El Tatawy

Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.

Everybody has to die. I prefer to die for a crime I have committed rather than to die for one of the crimes which you have committed.

Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows