Male dominance Quote by Antonia Young

I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression.…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

“Both the veil and makeup are often seen as voluntary behaviours by women, taken up by choice and to express agency. But in both…

— Sheila Jeffreys

I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

— Salman Rushdie

Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved.…

— Erica Jong

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an…

— Azar Nafisi

“the majority of women in the Muslim world across the ages, who worked in the fields, did not cover their faces and do not…

— Fred Halliday

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In France, we respect women: we don't beat them; we don't ask them to hide themselves behind a veil as if they were impure.

— Marine Le Pen

“[she used to say that] each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world – like a bride wears…

— Rebecca Stead

The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations,…

— Honore de Balzac

Some forms of veil are justified by the idea that you're not tempting men. Well how about men just behaving and keeping their hands…

— Mona Eltahawy