Faces Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

— Salman Rushdie

“[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

But by no manner of means are women to be allotted to uncover and exhibit any part of their person, lest both fall,-the men…

— Clement of Alexandria

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

When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity…

— Jason Evert

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

— Anonymous

In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

— Raymond Mortimer

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has…

— Mary Roach

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

— Anaxagoras

What we see it not always as it is, there may be a veil on it

— Zeeshan Hasan

“Any woman looks innocent in a white veil”

— Nancy B. Brewer