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

It is amazing how everything can fall into a routine — Azar Nafisi

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? — Azar Nafisi

Many things change with time, but certain basic human traits remain eternal: curiosity and empathy, the urge to know and the urge to connect. — Azar Nafisi

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

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. — Azar Nafisi

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time. — Azar Nafisi

[T]he most difficult part of the fight is not taking aim at the enemy, but rejecting his definition of you. — Azar Nafisi

Love is love, but there are so many ways of articulating it. — Azar Nafisi

And so began the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran versus The Great Gatsby — Azar Nafisi

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions. — Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become — Azar Nafisi

My toe as a lethal weapon! — Azar Nafisi

I always had a hankering for the security of impossible dreams. — Azar Nafisi

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain. — Azar Nafisi

Life in the Islamic Republic was as capricious as the month of April, when short periods of sunshine will suddenly give way to showers and storms. — Azar Nafisi

The room was full when I walked in, but as soon as I took my place behind the desk, my nervousness left me. — Azar Nafisi

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself. — Azar Nafisi

This is Tehran for me: its absences were more real than its presences — Azar Nafisi

Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless. — Azar Nafisi

Imagination and the journey-quest is at the heart of every life well-lived — Azar Nafisi

She felt secure only in her terrible sense of insecurity. — Azar Nafisi

These people," he had said with his inscrutable smile, "are different from us. They don't care about books and such things. — Azar Nafisi

This is the old part of Tehran, with small spice shops, dusty narrow alleys with dry streams winding into houses with tall protective walls. — Azar Nafisi

Our patents' old age shocks us in the same manner that our children's growth to maturity does , but without the joy. — Azar Nafisi

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream. — Azar Nafisi

You yourself told us that in the final analysis we are our own betrayers, playing Judas to our own Christ — Azar Nafisi

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in. — Azar Nafisi

Education's goal is to impart knowledge, and knowledge is not only heretical, but unpredictable and often uncomfortable. — Azar Nafisi

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth. — Azar Nafisi

I wish wish I could steal the intricacies of language. But give my kids a break - remember, most of them were fed on Steinbeck's The Pearl. — Azar Nafisi

Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into "us" and "them. — Azar Nafisi

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle. — Azar Nafisi

Art is as useful as bread. — Azar Nafisi

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became. — Azar Nafisi

Those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. — Azar Nafisi

Going away isn't going to help as much as you think. The memory stays with you, and the stain. It's not something you slough off once you leave. — Azar Nafisi

I'm a perfectly equipped failure. — Azar Nafisi

Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran. — Azar Nafisi

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. — Azar Nafisi

I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me. — Azar Nafisi

After all, it takes two to create a relationship, and when you make half the population invisible, the other half suffers as well. — Azar Nafisi

In the final analysis we are our own betrayers. — Azar Nafisi

Experience had proven that the only way these regulations would be heeded was if they were implemented by force. — Azar Nafisi

It is obvious that she is more interested in happiness than in the institution of marriage, in love and understanding than matrimony. — Azar Nafisi

The world is full of angry, pathological individuals pushing pieces of paper with obscene messages under doors. — Azar Nafisi

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. — Azar Nafisi

In our case, the law really was blind; in its mistreatment of women, it knew no religion, race or creed. — Azar Nafisi

Incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy. — Azar Nafisi

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. — Azar Nafisi

All violence is based on blindness, on a lack of reflection and empathy. — Azar Nafisi

I do not consider myself Western, but rather modern — Azar Nafisi

When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am? — Azar Nafisi

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules. — Azar Nafisi

Dreams,Mr.Nazari,are perfect ideals,complete in themselves. — Azar Nafisi

I eat my heart out alone. — Azar Nafisi

The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done. — Azar Nafisi

We envy people like you, and we want to be you; we can't, so we destroy you. — Azar Nafisi

Is it possible to write a reverent novel," said Nassrin, "and to have it be good? ... — Azar Nafisi

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know. — Azar Nafisi

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. — Azar Nafisi

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe. — Azar Nafisi

Primo Levi once said, "I write in order to rejoin the community of mankind." Reading is a private act, but it joins us across continents and time. — Azar Nafisi

[V]alue your dreams but ... be wary of them also, ... look for integrity in unusual places. — Azar Nafisi

Why do tyrants understand the dangers of a democratic imagination more than our policy makers appreciate its necessity? — Azar Nafisi

How do you tell someone she has to learn to love herself and her own body before she can be loved or love? — Azar Nafisi

He has demonstrated his own weakness: an inability to read a novel on its own terms. All he knows is judgment, — Azar Nafisi

It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom. — Azar Nafisi

readers were born free and ought to remain free. — Azar Nafisi

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. — Azar Nafisi

The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love with my books. — Azar Nafisi

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job. — Azar Nafisi

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested. — Azar Nafisi

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them. — Azar Nafisi

You cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be stubborn for something as well — Azar Nafisi

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one. — Azar Nafisi

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching. — Azar Nafisi

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent. — Azar Nafisi

But I spoke passionately at the rallies; inspired by phrases I had read in novels and poems, I would weave words together into sounds of revolution. — Azar Nafisi

How could God be so cruel as to create a Muslim woman with so much flesh and so little sex appeal? — Azar Nafisi

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams. — Azar Nafisi