Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

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

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.