The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state, I have said again a…

- Simin Behbahani

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything i…

- Simin Behbahani

Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create new methods and styles tha…

- Simin Behbahani

No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes its ess…

- Simin Behbahani

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques and intricacies t…

- Simin Behbahani

Old I may be, but, given the chance, I will learn.

- Simin Behbahani

I've stood in long lines, in the rain and under the sun, just to buy a pack of butter or a box of paper napkins. I've seen mothers running after the …

- Simin Behbahani

The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad Shāmlu was a man was important to his work as a poet. Basically…

- Simin Behbahani

Politics becomes a part of a writer's working life. The writer's protagonists are born in the context of the feelings that this atmosphere evokes. Ho…

- Simin Behbahani