It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.

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.

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

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.

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

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

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.