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“If our response is to stop people in our societies from saying things they don’t want us to say, we are falling into their trap

— Gillian Slovo

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The consequences of marginalizing people on the basis of what they wear or what they say is very dangerous.

“When you write a memoir you have to think about your responsibility to your audience that you’d be completely honest, and to people in your life. Your honesty is going to affect them.”

Anyone feeling vulnerable can feel attracted to the “idealistic world

“ask questions that they might not be asking of themselves” because as she says

The problem is that it’s all fake because they only respect women’s bodies by restricting them to the house and forcing them to cover up, which is not the same as someone choosing to cover up.”

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