Quotes About Headscarves

#1. My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#2. The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

Orhan Pamuk

#3. Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps external appearance. Naturally, Islamic feminism must also include the right to education, to work and the freedom to select one's own husband.

Tariq Ramadan

#4. There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

Susan Sontag

#5. Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.

Dmitry Medvedev

#6. If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it's yours.

Julian Barnes

#7. I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

David Levithan

#8. It struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can't say what it's going to do next.

James Gleick

#9. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Edward R. Murrow