Quotes by Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories

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Our personal fears and emotions are at times stronger than public danger. By keeping them secret, we allow them to remai — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experienc — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
Look at these magnificent women, I thought, created in such misogynistic and hierarchical societies, yet they are the su — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
Even the mild-mannered Sophia Western of Tom Jones and Richardson's annoyingly pious Clarissa Harlow distinguished thems — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
All our lives my brother and I were caught by the fictions my parents told us—fictions about themselves as well as other — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
But it was women like Rudabeh who planted in my mind the idea of a different kind of woman whose courage is private and — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
Don't let strangers touch you." And yet it is seldom strangers, I learned long before I was a teenager, who do you harm. — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. You sift through the r — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
There are so many different forms of silence: the silence that tyrannical states force on their citizens, stealing their — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
A message was sent by the regime to the faithful: to survive they would have to be loyal to only one interpretation of t — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
I used to joke that we had prepared ourselves for a time like this by living with Mother. The problem with such a state — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
Those who are close to us, when they die, divide our world. There is the world of the living, which we finally, in one w — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
Most serious confrontations in life are not political, they are existential. One can agree with someone's political stan — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
It is not just bookstores and libraries that are disappearing but museums, theaters, performing arts centers, art and mu — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories