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.

Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

I would rather clean than beg.

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.