“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there” – Unknown
“Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.”
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“When a woman is ‘too much’, she is essentially uncontrollable and unashamed. That makes her dangerous.”
― It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
― It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
“I believe the role of the writer is to tell society what it pretends it does not know.”
― It's Not About the Burqa
― It's Not About the Burqa
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