Quote by Paul Theroux

“For those brave enough to look beyond the veil.”

— Sarah Chen

“It was clear to me by now that studying Islam was one thing – and absolutely worthwhile, because it helped me grasp the meaning…

— Kristiane Backer

“Dancing with the veil feels holy, powerful, graceful. and feminine.”

— Rosangel Perez

“So it is with Moslem women and their veils,’ Michelangelo said. ‘When they saw Muhammad’s wives wearing veils, they sought to imitate them, and…

— Matthew Reilly

“the dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“What it is about Islam, I thought, that can make a woman so strong that she no longer strives to be noticed by men,…

— Na'ima B. Robert

“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

“To look at Islam through western lens is like looking at the sky through a woodworm's eyes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“With this assertion, many mainstream Muslims wash their hands of the twin brutalities that shape the lives of perhaps a quarter of the women…

— Geraldine Brooks

“I'm sure that a veiled arabian woman's exposed toes contains more sex appeal than a western pin-up's total nudity.”

— Daniel White

“At some point, the devoted pass from belief into certainty. I did not believe in Islam; I opened my eyes every morning and saw…

— G. Willow Wilson

“Whoever we were—and it was not really important what religion we belonged to, whether we wished to wear the veil or not, whether we…

— Azar Nafisi