Burqa Quotes
14 quotes by 9 authors
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I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good…
— Elayne Boosler
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I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading a mean Twitter…
— Amy Schumer
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The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing — it is a…
— Jean-Francois Cope
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Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up…
— Eleanor Smeal
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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 rising from a…
— Michael Muhammad Knight
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If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.
— Jean-Francois Cope
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When I was 12 my brother told me I had to wear the burqa, but I really wanted to play, because I was a child.…
— Malina Suliman
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The burqa is a way of controlling the woman, but in the name of respect. Every culture or religion gives a different name for the…
— Malina Suliman
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I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women…
— Malina Suliman
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If a woman is wearing the burqa, it's not her wish. It's more that she feels secure from the Taliban, secure from acid if she…
— Malina Suliman
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Afghans think the burqa is a permanent part of culture. But, if you bring it to Europe, how would people react? Afghanistan doesn't want to…
— Malina Suliman
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It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we…
— Arundhati Roy
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The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well…
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be…
— Mustafa Akyol
Who Wrote These Burqa Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 14 Burqa Quotes as follows: