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  1. Noam Chomsky _ Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on

    Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'-blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.
    book-quoteirandemocracyconsensus

  2. Marjane Satrapi _ The Complete Persepolis

    They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.
    book-quotefearcensorshippolice

  3. Marjane Satrapi _ Embroideries

    I've never seen or touched anything.""Can you explain then how you had children?""You're right. It's true I have four kids. Four! But still I have never seen the male organ. He came into the bedroom, he turned off the light, and then Bam! Bam! Bam! and voila I was pregnant! What's more, I was granted four girls. So I have never seen penises.
    book-quotewomenpatriarchysex

  4. Marjane Satrapi _ Embroideries

    I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.
    book-quotelovemarriageiran

  5. Marjane Satrapi _ The Complete Persepolis

    The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.
    book-quoteiranweaponsgermany

  6. Marjane Satrapi _ Embroideries

    To be the mistress of a married man is to have the better role. Do you realize? His dirty shirt, his disgusting underwear, his daily ironing, his bad breath, his hemorrhoid attacks, his fuss, not to mention his bad moods, and his tantrums. Well all that is for his wife. When a married man comes to his mistress... he's always bleached and ironed, his teeth sparkle, his breath is like perfume, he's in a good mood, he's full of conversation, he is there to have a good time with you.
    book-quotelovewomenlust

  7. Azar Nafisi _ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A

    That was the first time I experienced the desperate orgiastic pleasure of this form of public mourning: it was the one place where people mingled and touched bodies and shared emotions without restraint or guilt. There was a wild, sexually flavored frenzy in the air. Later, when I saw a slogan by Khomeini saying that the Islamic Republic survives through its mourning ceremonies, I could testify to its truth.
    book-quotemourningiran

  8. Azar Nafisi _ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A

    There are different forms of seduction, and the kind I have witnessed in Persian dancers is so unique, such a mixture of subtlety and brazenness, I cannot find a Western equivalent to compare it to. I have seen women of vastly different backgrounds take on that same expression: a hazy, lazy, flirtatious look in their eyes. . . . This sort of seduction is elusive; it is sinewy and tactile. It twists, twirls, winds and unwinds. Hands curl and uncurl while the waist seems to coil and recoil. . . . It is openly seductive but not surrendering.
    book-quoteiranpersianseduction

  9. Azar Nafisi _ Things I've Been Silent About

    Those who are close to us, when they die, divide our world. There is the world of the living, which we finally, in one way or another, succumb to, and then there is the domain of the dead that, like an imaginary friend {or foe} or a secret concubine, constantly beckons, reminding us of our loss. What is memory but a ghost that lurks at the corners of the mind, interrupting our normal course of life, disrupting our sleep in order to remind us of some acute pain or pleasure, something silenced or ignored? We miss not only their presence, or how they felt about us, but ultimately how they allowed us to feel about ourselves or them. {prologue}
    book-quotememoiriranfather-daughter-relationship

  10. Azar Nafisi _ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A

    Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.
    book-quotesexiranislamic-republic
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