"A brave and elegant figure...an honest woman...No one who reads
her [memoirs] will doubt the self-questioning and the rigorous
honesty of her mind. Perhaps, as in Voltaire's short story
'L'IngEnu, ' it is that too much honesty is sometimes unpalatable,
even if it is couched in civil terms...She has an open mind that
has released itself from the old straitjacketed frame of reference
of Right and Left, she is instinctively, deeply antiauthoritarian
and she is unlikely to stick to straight ideological lines. She
will go on asking difficult questions."-- Isabella Thomas, "The
Observer"
"A charismatic figure...of arresting and hypnotizing beauty...[who
writes] with quite astonishing humor and restraint."-- Christopher
Hitchens
"Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of Europe's most controversial political
figures and a target for terrorists. A notably enigmatic
personality whose fierce criticisms of Islam have made her a
darling of...conservatives...and...popular with
leftists...Soft-spoken but passionate."-- "The Boston Globe"
"Too potent a social critic to be tolerated any longer [in her home
country]...an unflinching advocate of women's rights and an
unflinching critic of Islamic extremism."-- "The New York Times"
"A brave and elegant figure...an honest woman...No one who reads her [memoirs] will doubt the self-questioning and the rigorous honesty of her mind. Perhaps, as in Voltaire's short story 'L'IngEnu, ' it is that too much honesty is sometimes unpalatable, even if it is couched in civil terms...She has an open mind that has released itself from the old straitjacketed frame of reference of Right and Left, she is instinctively, deeply antiauthoritarian and she is unlikely to stick to straight ideological lines. She will go on asking difficult questions."
-- Isabella Thomas, "The Observer"
-- Christopher Hitchens
-- "The Boston Globe"
-- "The New York Times"
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