Huda Shaarawi

Huda Shaarawi (1879-1947) was an Egyptian feminist activist, a leading feminist in the Arab world at the time when harem system was still prevailing. She led and founded several feminist organizations.

Wisdom & Quotes

• I saw in this barren garden a picture of life - the life I would live cut off from everything that had delighted me and consoled me in my melancholy childhood. I turned from the window with a heavy heart and avoided the garden for a long, long time.

- concluding an account of her marriage to her much older and already married cousin

Emiliano Zapata