Dress Quote by Mona Eltahawy

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

— Salman Rushdie

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion

— Aamir Khan

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

“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

“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

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

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

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“the majority of women in the Muslim world across the ages, who worked in the fields, did not cover their faces and do not…

— Fred Halliday

“[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

Until quite recently I've been wholly cut off from [the Shias] because their tenets forbid them to look upon an unveiled woman and my…

— Gertrude Bell

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