“the walking stick, like a burqa, conferred protective status...” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism. — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will. — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity. — Jean-Francois Cope Copy Share Image
“There was too much protection in a drone, protection that was also a denial of one’s own humanity, very much like the… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
If a woman is wearing the burqa, it's not her wish. It's more that she feels secure from the Taliban, secure from… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing —… — Jean-Francois Cope Copy Share Image
I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
Seeing the Afghan women in their burqas, it's easy to say, "Well, they're not as fully aware as I am, so why… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she’s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don’t stop… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
If people think that women only wear the burqa because of coercive pressure, let them create ample opportunities for them, at the… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath… — Steve Moore Copy Share Image
Afghans think the burqa is a permanent part of culture. But, if you bring it to Europe, how would people react? Afghanistan… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty,… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
The situation of women living in Islam-stricken societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled… — Maryam Namazie Copy Share Image
When I was 12 my brother told me I had to wear the burqa, but I really wanted to play, because I… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
“Imtiaz Ali slams women:- “I don't like when someone says ‘I am comfortable in my Burqa. I am comfortable in my parda’.… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
“Her skirts, sleeves, collar, and hat saw to it that none of the young ruffians of the Leased Territories would have the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
“When we finally arrived, the chauffeur escorted my younger sister, Laila, and me up to my father’s suite. As usual, he was… — Hana Ali Copy Share Image
“When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Imtiaz Ali slams women:- “I don't like when someone says ‘I am comfortable in my Burqa. I am comfortable in my parda’.… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
“He fished a sky blue burqa from the bag. The yards of pleated cloth spilled over his knees when he lifted it.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, I refuse to wear a burqa. Of all the burdens they've put on us, that's the most degrading. The Shirt of… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
The burqa is a way of controlling the woman, but in the name of respect. Every culture or religion gives a different… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
“This is what happens when the state intervenes in a person’s private life; it creates two separate personas. It compels you either… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People… — Prince Copy Share Image
The most obvious thing I do is I don't wear a burqa, and I'm definitely not oppressed. Plus, I'm quite obviously an… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“My face is my identity. No one will cover it. I’m proud of my face. If my face bothers you, don’t look.… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“The chowdry, or burqa -- the Saudi, North African, and Central Asian version of the head, face, and body shroud -- is… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a… — Jacques Myard Copy Share Image
