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Since you men claim to be wiser and have better minds than women, then how come you are seduced by seeing their faces.

— Nabawiyya Musa

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I preferred to live as master of men, not their servant.

There was no religious prohibition of showing a woman's face, that Egyptian peasants do not cover their faces, and that the white transparent cloth barely covers the face.

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