Headscarf Quotes

Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.

— Tariq Ramadan

I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!

— Sanaa Lathan

I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.

— Yuna

I wear a lot of hair extensions because I'm doing a lot of shoots and things like that. But for me, a…

— Ayesha Curry

The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We…

— Diana L. Eck

My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue…

— Elif Batuman

“She would have had to keep her headscarf on, never laugh, never smile—if she smiles at a man he will think, ‘Ah,…

— Geraldine Brooks

The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so…

— Asra Nomani

What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is…

— Asra Nomani

“Her skirts, sleeves, collar, and hat saw to it that none of the young ruffians of the Leased Territories would have the…

— Neal Stephenson

“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