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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

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 key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women…

— Ahmed Rashid

One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The…

— Fatema Mernissi

It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups…

— Anna Quindlen

“When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which…

— 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

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

“Women, on the other hand, were easy targets. Any time things started to go wrong in the Middle East, women suffered for it first.…

— Geraldine Brooks

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

The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

— Khaled Hosseini