“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.

Whether a woman is a believer or a non-believer, she is oppressed.

Beautiful or ugly, oppressed.

Crippled or not, rich or poor, literate or illiterate, oppressed.

Covered or naked, she is oppressed.

Dumb or not, cowardly or courageous, she is always oppressed.

Even a mangy cur of the house barks now and then, but over the mouths of women cheaply hadthere’s a lock, a golden lock.’” - Taslima Nasreen