Quotes from Dalia Mogahed

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

What have we heard from Republican voters? They want somebody that's new, they want somebody that's fresh. They don't want an establishment.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.