Quote by Fariba Ghorbani

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

I'm the first girl from Afghanistan to lead a series in the United States.

— Azita Ghanizada

“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

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

— Khaled Hosseini

“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

I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This…

— Malala Yousafzai

Not long ago, women in Afghanistan were required by Taliban leadership to be covered nearly head-to-toe and were barely allowed to leave the home;…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

When the Taliban was ruling Afghanistan, women were not allowed to go to school, to work, or even leave the house without a male…

— Sonita Alizadeh

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have…

— Tina Fey

“Since many donor countries required development projects—from agriculture to politics—to consider specifically how the lives of Afghan women were to be improved, Kabul had…

— Jenny Nordberg

“In Afghanistan when a woman is widowed, she is generally taken in by her late husband’s family. His brother might marry her if she…

— Douglas Grindle

“As we drove around town I felt like the queen of Afghanistan. People were waving at me and the joy felt by the few…

— Petra Procházková