A Quote by Lisa Stansfield

I gave up everything and nearly became a farmer, walking around in headscarf and wellies for 10 years to find my confidence again.

Lisa Stansfield

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Lisa Stansfield
English - Musician
Born: April 11, 1966

I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But what happened when I came here to the U.S. and the emergence of the Saudi and Iranian theologies in the world is that the headscarf became the hijab and the hijab is now the idea that is synonymous with headscarf.

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