Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the personal experiences of the speaker regarding the acceptance of the veil within their female family and friends, indicating a resistance to it.
Salman Rushdie reflects on his personal observations about the women in his family and their rejection of the practice of wearing a veil. This statement may suggest broader themes about cultural identity, personal choice, and autonomy, especially in relation to women's rights and perceptions within a specific social context.
In practice
In a discussion about cultural practices during a family gathering.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.
What’s the point of being a magician if you can’t wave your wand and make the people you care about feel better?
Two ( or more) people come together and they agree that they should be together for a common purpose and that purpose is to add value to one another. ENGAGEMENTS are partnerships that should ALWAYS be Win-Win.
I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.
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