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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
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“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
“The fact is that worth is a matter of opinion, and opinion is informed by culture. And if that culture is as male-biased as ours is, it can’t help but be biased against women. By default.”
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“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
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