我认为，看着这些宏伟的女性，是在这种厌恶和等级的社会中创造的，但它们是围绕情节的颠覆性中心。一切都应该围绕男性英雄。但是，正是这些女性的积极存在改变了事件，并将男人的生活从传统过程中转移到改变他的生存方式。在古典的伊朗叙事中，活跃的女性主导了现场。他们使事情发生。
(Look at these magnificent women, I thought, created in such misogynistic and hierarchical societies, yet they are the subversive centers around which the plot is shaped. Everything is supposed to revolve around the male hero. But it is the active presence of these women that changes events and diverts the man's life from its traditional course, that shocks him into changing his very mode of existence. In the classical Iranian narrative, active women dominate the scene; they make things happen.)