Simin Behbahani

The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state,…

— Simin Behbahani

Politics becomes a part of a writer's working life. The writer's protagonists are born in the context of the feelings that this…

— Simin Behbahani

Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create…

— Simin Behbahani

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to…

— Simin Behbahani

The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad Shāmlu was…

— Simin Behbahani

No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it…

— Simin Behbahani

Old I may be, but, given the chance, I will learn.

— Simin Behbahani

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which…

— Simin Behbahani

I've stood in long lines, in the rain and under the sun, just to buy a pack of butter or a box…

— Simin Behbahani