Afghan Women Quotes

#1. Seeing the Afghan women in their burqas, it's easy to say, "Well, they're not as fully aware as I am, so why do I have to worry so much about their plight?" But that's a misunderstanding. They are brutally aware of their station.

Eliza Griswold

#2. They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

Malalai Joya

#3. Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

Khaled Hosseini

#4. It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.

Arundhati Roy

#5. The first time I visited Afghanistan in May 2000, I was 26 years old, and the country was under Taliban rule. I went there to document Afghan women and landmine victims.

Lynsey Addario

#6. Regardless of who they are, whether they are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, Afghan women often describe the difference between men and women in just one word: freedom.

Jenny Nordberg

#7. In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals.

Tina Brown

#8. Nine out of ten Afghan women will experience domestic abuse in some form,

Jenny Nordberg

#9. I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Hillary Clinton

#10. Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

Eleanor Smeal

#11. Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

Al Franken

#12. Carolyn Maloney led the fight to make sure that DNA evidence kits are processed and passed the Debbie Smith Bill. She, when no one almost would listen to us on the whole issue of the Taliban and its treatment of women, she helped pass the Afghan Women's Empowerment Act.

Eleanor Smeal

#13. Being born with power, as a boy, doesn't necessarily spur innovation. But being born entirely without it forces innovation in women, who must learn to survive almost from the moment they are born. Afghan women do not need much well-intentioned training on that.

Jenny Nordberg

#14. Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

Eleanor Smeal

#15. I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.

Eleanor Smeal

#16. A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#17. In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

Mark Steyn

#18. Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#19. Never underestimate the fury of an angry mother, Caspar. They're the most vicious creatures in the world.

Elizabeth Hunter

#20. God is the Creator and the Giver of life, and the life that He gives does not run dry.

Brenton Brown

#21. The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan and Pakistani extremists.

Richard Engel

#22. Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

Khaled Hosseini

#23. You will know the person you truly love when there is no peace in your heart, until you are with them.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

Wally Lamb

#25. Ive never shown my weakness, I will never show my weakness.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#26. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. - Charles Darwin

Aleatha Romig

#27. I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

Karl Lagerfeld

#28. I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women.

Sushmita Banerjee

#29. Belgium is the best remedy against patriotism.

Geert Van Istendael

#30. When twins are seperated, their spirits steal away to find the other

Jandy Nelson

#31. He taught me more than all the others set end to end. If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well.

Patrick Rothfuss

#32. I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.

Cory Arcangel

#33. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Anne Lamott