Afghan Quote by Hillary Clinton

The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections…

— Eliza Griswold

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

“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

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

— George W. Bush

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Khaled Hosseini

Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

— Khaled Hosseini

In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated…

— Tina Brown

Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for…

— Al Franken

When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

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