Deprived Quote by 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

Freedoms in Iran are genuine, true freedoms. Iranian people are free. Women in Iran enjoy the highest levels of freedom. In Iran, we don't…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the…

— Inga Muscio

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

— Farah Diba

“If Islamic countries can’t come up with their own principles for women’s competition,” she said in one widely reported speech, “then the way dictated…

— Geraldine Brooks

I think women in Iran are very resilient and I am very proud of all the Iranian women that are standing up for their…

— Anousheh Ansari

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

— Marjane Satrapi

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…

— Azar Nafisi

Iran has a dismal record on human rights.

— Howard Berman

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a…

— Azar Nafisi

These words that you have heard regarding women in the future Islamic government are all hostile propaganda. In the Islamic Republic women have complete…

— Ayatollah Khomeini

My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader or head…

— Shirin Ebadi