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“There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.”

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Book:V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“This is what happens when the state intervenes in a person’s private life; it creates two separate personas. It compels you either to lead two separate lives, or to violate what’s imposed on you when the state isn’t looking.”

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Book:Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

Source: Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

“Her skirts, sleeves, collar, and hat saw to it that none of the young ruffians of the Leased Territories would have the opportunity to invade her body space with their eyes, and lest her distinctive face prove too much of a temptation, she wore a veil too... The veil offered Nell protection from unwanted scrutiny. Many New Atlantis career women also used the veil as a way of meeting the world on their own terms, ensuring that they were judged on their own merits and not on their appearance. It served a protective function as well, bouncing back the harmful rays of the sun...”

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Book:The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Source: The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

“My face is my identity. No one will cover it. I’m proud of my face. If my face bothers you, don’t look. Turn your own face away, take your eyes off me. If you are seduced by merely looking at my face, that is your problem. Do not tell me to cover it. You cannot punish me simply because you cannot control yourself.”

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Book:Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

Source: Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

“If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability?”

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Book:Taqwacores: A Novel

Source: Taqwacores: A Novel

“The niqab represents a bizarre reverence for the disappearance of women. It puts on a pedestal a woman who covers her face, who erases herself, and it considers that erasure the pinnacle of piety.”

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Book:Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

Source: Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

“Sob aqueles véus negros parece não haver mais mulheres de carne e osso. Parecem pássaros negros, misteriosos, inabordáveis.”

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Book:O Mundo de Aisha: A revolução silenciosa das mulheres no Iêmen

Source: O Mundo de Aisha: A revolução silenciosa das mulheres no Iêmen

“J’ai porté le voile intégral en reportage lorsque je n’avais pas le choix. Dès que je le mettais, j’avais l’impression de disparaître, d’être dépouillée de mon identité. Je déteste la burqa ou le niqab. Le voile intégral est encombrant, étouffant, humiliant.”

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Book:Partir pour raconter

Source: Partir pour raconter

“Every time I see niqabs, I feel very uncomfortable because it's the opposite of my idea of opened society.”

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Author:Jens Spahn

“One thing is for sure - if you are wearing a niqab, you will never, ever find a job. You will never, ever make friends, German friends or neighbors friends. So this is obviously something that is making integration impossible.”

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Author:Jens Spahn

“We seem to be always on cusps. Women come out of the burkah, the niqab, purdah, the closet, then go back in again. Of course, what we need do is to value the happy freedom of all beings.”

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Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

“I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.”

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Author:Will Self

“The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing — it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible.”

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Author:Jean-Francois Cope