Azar Nafisi Quotes
We Lived In A Culture That Denied Any Merit To Literary Works, Considering Them Important Only When They Were Handmaidens To Something Seemingly More Urgent
namely Ideology. This Was A Country Where All Gestures, Even The Most Private, Were Interpreted In Political Terms. The Colors Of My Head Scarf Or My Father's Tie Were Symbols Of Western Decadence And Imperialist Tendencies. Not Wearing A Beard, Shaking Hands With Members Of The Opposite Sex, Clapping Or Whistling In Public Meetings, Were Likewise Considered Western And Therefore Decadent, Part Of The Plot By Imperialists To Bring Down Our Culture.
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