Family Quote by Douglas Grindle

No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but…

— Hyder Akbar

“In Afghanistan a woman’s longing for love is taboo. It is forbidden by the tribes’ notion of honor and by the mullahs. Young people…

— Asne Seirstad

“Women in my country take their rights for granted and completely dissociate themselves from the women's rights movement and feminism. But I think anything's…

— Cheryl Benard quoting Lorrie

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

— Khaled Hosseini

“My country is still in chains of bloody and terrorist fundamentalists. The situation in Afghanistan and conditions of its ill-fated women will never change…

— Malalai Joya

Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

— Khaled Hosseini

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride…

— Khaled Hosseini

“In Afghanistan, not much is for certain other than an open sky and eventual death. In between the two is family.”

— Jenny Nordberg

“the gains of women in Afghanistan once again directly contributed to war, as their fate was mixed into the powder keg of tension between…

— Jenny Nordberg

A good girl in Afghanistan should be silent, should not talk about her future, should listen to your family, be like a doll so…

— Sonita Alizadeh