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“My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?" "The outside world may want you," he replied.”

World Revolution Husband Empowerment Purdah

Book:The Home and the World

Source: The Home and the World

“When we finally arrived, the chauffeur escorted my younger sister, Laila, and me up to my father’s suite. As usual, he was hiding behind the door waiting to scare us. We exchanged many hugs and kisses as we could possibly give in one day. My father took a good look at us. Then he sat me down on his lap and said something that I will never forget. He looked me straight in the eyes and said, “Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.” He looked at me with serious eyes. “Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.”

Hijab Veil Burqa Muhammad Ali Purdah Burka Headscarf Jilbab Hijaab Jilbaab Khimaar Khimar Purda

Book:More Than a Hero: Muhammad Ali's Life Lessons Presented Through His Daughter's Eyes

Source: More Than a Hero: Muhammad Ali's Life Lessons Presented Through His Daughter's Eyes

“...my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.”

Hypocrisy Purdah

Book:Blasphemy

Source: Blasphemy

“It’s different for women, isn’t it? They have no choice where they go. They grow up in a prison and then get married into one.”

Women Marriage Prison Pakistan Arranged Marriage Purdah

Book:China Room

Source: China Room

“Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.”

People America Names Politician Islam Misguided Malala Purdah

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.”

Kind Eye Mother Heavy Rage Chairs Bitterness Sheets Muslim Women Purdah

Author:Indira Gandhi

“At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.”

Men Said Mother Night Certain House Morning Brother Concerned Cooking Moved Ill Cooks Hated Grandmother Riding Grandfather Pale My Grandmother Doing Nothing My Grandfather Let Her Go Purdah

Author:Indira Gandhi

“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.”

Needs Seems Values Courses Closets Cusp Niqab Purdah

Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

“As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.”