Absurd Quote by Mohsin Hamid

We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.

— Isabelle Adjani

“The Muslim veil, the different sorts of masks and beaks and "burkas", are all gradations of mental slavery. (...) The veil deliberately marks women…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved.…

— Erica Jong

There are some societies where women are not even allowed to drive a car, and that restriction is based in the name of religion…

— Asma Jahangir

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

— Salman Rushdie

Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps…

— Tariq Ramadan

In France, we respect women: we don't beat them; we don't ask them to hide themselves behind a veil as if they were impure.

— Marine Le Pen

Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“To these women, the veil constitutes an extremely important part of the idea of 'getting dressed', whereas in the West the veil represents a…

— Antonia Young

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

— Thomas Carlyle

I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression.…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

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