Empowering Intersectionality Intersectionality can be seen in many situations around the world. It is often linked to assimilation and adaptation, however these situations are not always seen as a force to completely change one's opinions. In the essay How I Came to Love the Veil, Yvonne Ridley explains how her “devastating” situation in captivity by the Taliban altered her views. In the essay Only Daughter, Sandra Cisneros also explains how intersectionality led her to believe that her father would no longer accept her. And in Amy Tan's essay In the Canon, For All the Wrong Reasons she explains that she does not wish to be a writer famous simply for her ethnicity but rather would like to be well known for her writing. He takes her situation and beliefs and applies it to the general population by explaining that "[They] view veiled women as quiet, oppressed creatures" (Ridley 46), Muslim women are stereotyped and seen by the general population as people who have no say in your own life. Muslim women face judgment from outsiders who ignore their true culture. They are seen as lower class simply because of what they wear. Cisneros' essay also included issues of race, class, gender, and education. He felt that breaking the standards imposed by his cultural norms would displease his tradition-loving father. She felt that Cisneros should have found a husband and not focused so much on her education. Cisneros writes “I am the only daughter in the Mexican family of six children” (Cisneros 366). This not only exemplifies the internal family issues of being the only woman, but also the external problems of the norms imposed on women in a Hispanic culture to be an ideal wife. Tan's essay highlights the fact that her race, gender, education, and upbringing have played a role in making people aware of her writing, even if she doesn't want them to. In informing readers that his fans often wrote not only about his work but also about "... [his] youthful indiscretions, the slings and arrows I suffered as a minority..." (Tan 1), this it bothered Tan to some extent because sheBy educating herself was able to form her own opinion and no longer be ignorant to the issue of how women are judged based on their appearance in Western cultures. By asking the rhetorical question “what is more liberating” (Ridley 448), he is able to get his readers to see what he has discovered. Cisneros also learned that even though he didn't take the path his father wanted, he was still proud of all his accomplishments. After reading her work for the first time, her father asked "where can I find more copies" (Cisneros 369), showing her that he wanted to show others and brag about his only daughter's accomplishments. Tan changes tone throughout the paper but ends with a direct tone by saying, “there are still many more books on the shelf. Choose what you like” (Tan 4), explains that as a reader an individual has the right to form his own opinion on his own writing but if he doesn't like it he is not obliged to read it because he writes for his own pleasure and no one else's. All the women took separate approaches to deal with their problems, but all these solutions allowed them to see the positive side of the situation