Conflict resolution Quote by Jenny Nordberg

“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

I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many…

— 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

“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

I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus…

— Khaled Hosseini

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can…

— Arundhati Roy

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

“A Girl from Afghanistan”

— Fariba Ghorbani

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

— Emma Bonino

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

— 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

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

— Khaled Hosseini