Iranian Women Quotes

#1. In his Interview in Les Nouvelles, Mosaddegh gave an unintentional insight into his own marriage at this stage when he described Iranian women as "more mother than wife." (p37)

Christopher De Bellaigue

#2. I don't see myself as a very important person. But I was the second woman to write a novel in Iran, and I have written most of the novels about Iranian women. In this way, maybe I have a good place in Iranian literature.

Shahrnush Parsipur

#3. Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

Farah Diba

#4. Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

Azar Nafisi

#5. Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

Inga Muscio

#6. We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

Herbie Hancock

#7. We cannot reform our forefathers.

George Eliot

#8. What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

Walt Whitman

#9. Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.

Tyson Fury

#10. I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

Mackenzie Foy

#11. We were beset with all sorts of problems that were all political. But in the end it was the weather that brought us down. It's a very, very difficult thing to circumnavigate the globe. Otherwise someone else would have done it by now.

Mike Kendrick

#12. We'd met at university, where he was studying medicine and I was studying social awkwardness and a catastrophic inability to cope with deadlines.

Tammy Cohen

#13. Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?'
'You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

Yasunari Kawabata

#14. I am pleased that my work has been recognized, and I hope to be a role model.

Guler Sabanci

#15. In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

Azar Nafisi

#16. Can I give a little advice to the old man on Capitol Hill? Stop saying teabagger. Ask your younger staffers what it means.

Andrea Tantaros

#17. If you let a single life event define you then all you need to change things--if you want them to change--is another.

Myra McEntire

#18. When our thoughts, our words, and our deeds are for happiness then we are happy.

Debasish Mridha

#19. It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.

Carol Plum-Ucci