Quote by Jenny Nordberg

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

— Khaled Hosseini

“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

“Afghanistan is a land of widows and widowers, orphans and the missings. Missing a right leg, a left hand, a child,or a mother. Everyone…

— Nadia Hashimi

“She could be dismissed as a dokhtar zai, or “she who only brings daughters.” Still, this is not as grave an insult as what…

— Jenny Nordberg

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

— Asne Seierstad

“The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle…

— Khaled Hosseini

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.

— Asne Seierstad

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

— Ibn Khaldun

“A Girl from Afghanistan”

— Fariba Ghorbani

To give you an idea how slowly we are leaving Afghanistan, Afghans don't refer to us anymore as 'infidel crusaders.' They refer to us…

— Bill Maher