68 Quotes by Taslima Nasrin

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

I came from a country where religious fundamentalists, including governmental authorities, denied my freedom to have thoughts that are different from their own. As a punishment, they demanded my execution by hanging. I was forced to leave my own country. I had to pay heavily for the sole reason that I believe in human rights and freedom of expression.

I don't believe in God. The religion mongers segregate women from the human race, I too am divided, I too am defrauded of my human rights.

Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.

There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

... governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology ...

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.