Secondly, what struck me as interesting with the women's struggles in Egypt before the revolution was what they wanted. This is another issue that the American feminists seem to disagree on. But, overall it appears that they want political power. It is the second part of that quote that concerns me. That the women desired moral influence shows how important such influence is compared to political power.
Political power can be very dangerous without the balance of moral influence.
Another one of the problems with the system in pre-1919 Egypt is that a woman's role was limited to that of mother. It is probably hard for us to think of society in which families are prized and protected. Our society is not like that. In Egypt before 1919, motherhood was a special realm that women entered. This is problematic, though, when women are reduced to mothers.