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“I dressed the way I did not because I was trying to be a nun, but because it felt good—and because it made me feel less vulnerable in general, like I wore a kind of armor every day. It was a personal preference.”
― Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

“Instead, I’d been counting the number of dipshit things people had said to me today. I’d been holding strong at fourteen until I made my way to my next class and some kid passing me in the hall asked if I wore that thing on my head because I was hiding bombs underneath and I ignored him, and then his friend said that maybe I was secretly bald and I ignored him, and then a third one said that I was probably, actually, a man, and just trying to hide it and finally I told them all to fuck off, even as they congratulated one another on having drummed up these excellent hypotheses. I had no idea what these asswipes looked like because I never glanced in their direction, but I was thinking seventeen, seventeen, as I got to my next class way too early and waited, in the dark, for everyone else to show up.
These, the regular injections of poison I was gifted from strangers, were definitely the worst things about wearing a headscarf. But the best thing about it was that my teachers couldn’t see me listening to music.
It gave me the perfect cover for my earbuds.”
― Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

“Oh—don’t worry,â€� he said quickly. “I’m like eighty percent gay.â€�
“That’s nice,â€� I said, irritated, “but this isn’t about you.”
― Tahereh mafi

“You cut me
Now I sit, sharpening my blad
One day I will loom, a shadow no
more
Silence your hate, leave it shredded
Strewn around your feet
The only sign I've roared my pain:
You
Cut
Down”
― S.K. Ali

“You know what? Who cares what normal is, Simone. Let's protest. From now on we're the anti-normal, anti-average, anti-standard. You can eat when you want to, I'll wear what I want, and we'll die with a packet of chips in our hand and a tablecloth on our head.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?

“Choose friends by their character and socks by their colour.”
― hazel edwards, Hijabi Girl

“Hijab and Habit are both
symbols of sacred humility,
Yet the latter receives respect,
while the former faces cruelty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“So this girl promoting different ways to don modest religious outerwear ended up looking more beautiful by virtue of her scarf styles, and garnering more attention, male and female, than she ever would have received if she didn’t wear one.”
― Hannah Matus, A Second Look