"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"
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The second move is sharper. “Inside, outside home” targets a liberal myth that liberation is a matter of leaving the private sphere. Nasrin suggests the home isn’t a sanctuary from patriarchy; it’s one of its most reliable engines. Then she widens the net again: “in religion… outside religion.” That pairing is a calculated refusal to let secular audiences off the hook, and it’s also a rebuke to religious apologetics. The subtext is that arguments over whether patriarchy is “cultural” or “religious” can become a way to delay action - a taxonomy of harm that leaves the harm intact.
Context matters because Nasrin writes under pressure: a Bangladeshi-born feminist author who has faced threats, exile, and censorship for criticizing religious fundamentalism and gendered violence. That biography charges the quote with urgency, but the sentence isn’t only personal testimony. It’s strategy: she’s building a coalition by denying every listener the easy exit. If you’re tempted to point at “other” societies, she’s already moved the spotlight. If you want to blame faith alone, she’s already named the secular world. The effect is bracing, almost airless - exactly the point.
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Nasrin, Taslima. (2026, January 15). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/women-are-oppressed-in-the-east-in-the-west-in-169127/
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Nasrin, Taslima. "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." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/women-are-oppressed-in-the-east-in-the-west-in-169127/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"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." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/women-are-oppressed-in-the-east-in-the-west-in-169127/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
