Azar Nafisi Quotes - Page 4

• I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

  Azar Nafisi

  Islamic, People, Age

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• 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.

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  Islamic, Past, Years

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

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  Dream, Country, Past

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.109, Random House

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• I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

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  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.201, Random House

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• Cuando salí de Irán por primera vez, a los 13 años, Irán se había convertido en una estrella brillante: era el punto al que volvían todos mis deseos y sueños.

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  Dream, Stars, Iran

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