Azar Nafisi Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.”

“When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.”

“A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.”

“For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.”

“I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.”

“I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.”

“Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.”

“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.”