I wear the lipstick because I am allowed to be beautiful. I wear the burkha because I am more than just beauty.
I was wrong. They aren’t enemies. They are roommates in a very cramped studio apartment called my soul. burkha under my lipstick
Sometimes, I walk into a boardroom wearing a silk headscarf and a power lip, and the women look at me with pity. They assume my husband picks my clothes. They don't realize I picked him because he lets me pick my own clothes. I wear the lipstick because I am allowed to be beautiful