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> [Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the leaders and I don't agree with the notion that Americans can accomplish more or do more. But I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/personally-i-get-so-much-of-my-inspiration-from-women-in-other/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

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## More by Asra Nomani

> [What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/what-we-are-saying-is-we-have-to-be-smart-about-the-ideology-that-is/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [When we think about Islamic feminism, it is not just about women's rights. It's about a more progressive and tolerant expression of Islam in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/when-we-think-about-islamic-feminism-it-is-not-just-about-women-s/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to as Muslim…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/very-interestingly-in-a-movement-that-i-call-now-the-hijab-lobby/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [I think that we don't have, here in the Middle East or in Africa, as much threat to our physical and economic livelihood as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/i-think-that-we-don-t-have-here-in-the-middle-east-or-in-africa-as/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the leaders and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/personally-i-get-so-much-of-my-inspiration-from-women-in-other/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [We don't believe we are too sexy for our hair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/we-don-t-believe-we-are-too-sexy-for-our-hair/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/i-was-born-in-1965-when-i-grew-up-in-india-there-was-no-expectation/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I wasn't authentic.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/talk-to-me-20-years-ago-and-i-had-a-complete-sense-of-illegitimacy-as/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/there-is-a-fundamental-flaw-in-interpretations-of-sharia-that-say-a/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights movement in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/it-s-true-that-in-a-lot-of-western-feminist-movements-you-see-women/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [You celebrate a person's life by living your life fully.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/you-celebrate-a-person-s-life-by-living-your-life-fully/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so what's happened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/the-hijab-or-a-variation-of-the-word-shows-up-eight-times-in-the/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [One of our greatest challenges here in America is that pogressives don't always stand with the progressive Muslims because in the interest of freedom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/one-of-our-greatest-challenges-here-in-america-is-that-pogressives/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/what-we-argue-in-the-piece-is-that-the-headscarf-has-become-a/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

> [We're talking about everybody's free right to have choice. And so what we're also getting are interesting messages like you really need to obey…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asra-nomani/we-re-talking-about-everybody-s-free-right-to-have-choice-and-so-what/)

[Asra Nomani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asra-nomani/)

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