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As a Western woman in the Middle East, I am often put in a different category. I am sort of like the third sex. I am not treated like a man. I am not treated like a woman. I am just treated like a journalist. That is usually really helpful.

— Lynsey Addario

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women.

— Shohreh Aghdashloo

Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

— Zaha Hadid

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

— Naomi Wolf

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

— America Ferrera

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.

— Eleanor Clift

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

— Caitlin Moran

I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.

— Shereen El Feki

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

— Ginny Brown-Waite

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.

— Shirin Ebadi

I am treated no different than the other girls.

— Eva Longoria

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