Quotes by Taslima Nasrin

• Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
• 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.
• Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
• 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.
• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
• 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.