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The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women

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Tahereh Saffarzadeh

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“I have always been drawn to the women who can arouse this kind of vitriol. The kind of hate that seems too big and billowing to be directed at just one woman, the kind that seems like a person or an entire society is vomiting out all its misogyny onto one convenient scapegoat. At some point — after successive Joan of Arc and Courtney Love phases — I started to see this position of feminine abjectness as a kind of superpower. A position from which a woman could offend far more deeply than a man.”

“الطبيعة لم تفرق بين الرجل والمرأة, فلكل منهم رغبة جنسية وطاقة لا بد أن تصرف في اتجاهها الصحيح, فمن خصائص الطاقة أنها تولد ثم تصرف ثم تولد ثم -تصرف وهكذا تستمر الطاقة أو القوة التي تحرك الإنسان طالما هو يعيش. - والطاقة إذا كبتت لا تضيع ولاتفقد, وإنما تنحرف عن مسارها الطبيعي إلى مسار آخر”