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

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

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

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 no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

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