“Maintaining decency, we could go anywhere and do all of our works -- Islam gives that liberty and scope to women …women have to create their own fate and work out their own future.”

— Sheikh Hasina

Hasina said on a function at Osmani Memorial Auditorium. The Ministry of Children and Women Affairs organised the function on the occasion of Begum Rokeya Day, (9 December 2015). http://www.thedailystar.net/country/women-must-create-their-own-fate-pm-184663

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