“I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two eld...”

“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.”

“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.”

“Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.”

“I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.”

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