My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
“I'm starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clean air. You take it in… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
“Mr. Taylor has this habit of emphasizing his point by using three adjectives or verbs in a row. 'Class, you must know,' Simon begins… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
And it’s when I’m standing there this morning, in my PJs and a hijab, next to my mum and my dad, kneeling before God,… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
![“Mr. Taylor has this habit of emphasizing his point by using three adjectives or verbs in a row. 'Class, you must know,' Simon begins [imitating] in a droning voice, flinging her arms around at every syllable, 'that should you fail to understand, to comprehend, to FEEL the power of the…” quote by Randa Abdel-Fattah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/66c/randa-abdel-fattah-12772_funny_mr-taylor-has-this-habit-of-emphasizing_373017.jpg)
