Art is as useful as bread.

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.

I eat my heart out alone.

When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.

Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.