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Steve Moore
“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.”
Steve Moore, V for Vendetta

Manal Al-Sharif
“My face is my identity. No one will cover it. I鈥檓 proud of my face. If my face bothers you, don鈥檛 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.”
Manal al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

Neal Stephenson
“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...”
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Manal Al-Sharif
“This is what happens when the state intervenes in a person鈥檚 private life; it creates two separate personas. It compels you either to lead two separate lives, or to violate what鈥檚 imposed on you
when the state isn鈥檛 looking.”
Manal al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

Michael Muhammad Knight
“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?”
Michael Muhammad Knight, Taqwacores: A Novel

Mona Eltahawy
“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.”
Mona Eltahawy, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

Ugo Bertotti
“Sob aqueles v茅us negros parece n茫o haver mais mulheres de carne e osso. Parecem p谩ssaros negros, misteriosos, inabord谩veis.”
Ugo bertotti, O Mundo de Aisha: A revolu莽茫o silenciosa das mulheres no I锚men

“J鈥檃i port茅 le voile int茅gral en reportage lorsque je n鈥檃vais pas le choix. D猫s que je le mettais, j鈥檃vais l鈥檌mpression de dispara卯tre, d鈥櫭猼re d茅pouill茅e de mon identit茅. Je d茅teste la burqa ou le niqab. Le voile int茅gral est encombrant, 茅touffant, humiliant.”
Mich猫le Ouimet, Partir pour raconter