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“A society cannot be healthy and balanced as long as half of the social body, the feminine element, continues to be enslaved, exploited.”
Source: Speech of 1972, in Discours relatifs à la femme, as cited in Confluences Méditerranée 59 (2006)
Context From his speeches on women's status; his 1956 Personal Status Code had already abolished polygamy and required consent to marriage in Tunisia.
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