I've stood in long lines, in the rain and under the sun, just to buy a pack of butter or a box of paper napkins. I've seen mothers running after the corpses of their martyred sons, oblivious to whether their… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state, I have said again and again that, when there is an apparatus for censorship that filters all writing, an apparatus comes into being in every writer's mind that says: "Don't write this, they won't allow it to be… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share
Politics becomes a part of a writer's working life. The writer's protagonists are born in the context of the feelings that this atmosphere evokes. How can writers separate themselves from these feelings and create protagonists that come from Mars? Even writers who only write about psychological or internal issues or about love are writing under their prevailing atmosphere, and their… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share
Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create new methods… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad Shāmlu was a man… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
I've stood in long lines, in the rain and under the sun, just to buy a pack of butter or a box of paper… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
