As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn’t prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn’t have to beg him for financial support.
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
Most of all, I think it was the novels that saved me from submission. I was young, but the first tiny, meek beginnings of my rebellion had already clicked into place.
I love life more than I love death.
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.
The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.