Burka Quotes

The next time you are heading out the door, pause at the mirror and make sure that what you see reflects your purpose and value. That doesn't mean donning the burka, but it probably doesn't mean having words on your butt either. ~ Amy E. Spiegel

They're my burka ... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

He licked his lips, shaking his head again, and raised his eyes to mine. Maybe you could put something else on? Like ... I don't know ... a robe or ... a Burka ... or something ... ~ Emme Rollins

Design is all about relationships. Unfortunately, many designers don't fully appreciate this. Some of the best design work I've ever done was drinking coffee or beers with engineers, marketing people, and business development hustlers. And I wholeheartedly mean design work. ~ Daniel Burka

In the privacy of her century-worn house she donned an old burka to stay warm. Years earlier, the ragged garment had been discarded by her eldest sister, Sarah. Zoe secretly retrieved it so she could wrap herself in its fond memories. Those memories, good and bad, quickened her weary heart. Only one person could help when she got nerved-up. ~ Michael Ben Zehabe

Coercing a woman out of a burka is as bad as coercing her into one. It's not about the burka. It's about the coercion. ~ Arundhati Roy

Many people have noted the contrast between the hysterical 'hurt' professed by Muslims and the readiness with which Arab media publish stereotypical anti-Jewish cartoons. At a demonstration in Pakistan against the Danish cartoons, a woman in a black burka was photographed carrying a banner reading 'God Bless Hitler'. In ~ Richard Dawkins

Our mental burka window is narrow because it didn't need to be any wider in order to assist our ancestors to survive. ~ Richard Dawkins

The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping. ~ Daniel Burka

A little thing happened in the not so
distant past Cade, something called
Feminism, which meant that women have
the right to do a lot of things, like vote, get equal pay oh and wear whatever the fuck they want. There is no way I am letting anyone tell me what to wear, ever Cade. And if you wanted a timid 'Old Lady' who would don a full length fucking burka at your request you've got the wrong one. ~ Anne Malcom

Modesty and decency dwell in the mind, not in a burka. ~ Nadeem Aslam

Marley, let's get one thing straight. I've seen you in a short skirt. I've seen your bare legs and have imagined them wrapped around me. I've felt the curves of your body with my hands and the way it responds to me. I've tasted the sweetness of your mouth. There is nothing you can do to erase those images from my mind. So understand this, you could wear a Middle-eastern Burka and it wouldn't help me right now. ~ M.K. Schiller

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. ~ Richard Dawkins

I like it when my five-year-old asks me if a woman in a burka on the subway is a ninja. ~ Jim Gaffigan

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali