![]() ![]() It’s an area where we plant rice, where the women work beside each other, bent over all day. MS: This has a lot to do with geography-you know, I come from the north of Iran. What do you think made your mother so empowered? Where did this empowered line of women from which you descended come from? I talked to her about it when I was 28 and she, of course, told me I was very stupid to think like that.ĮW: But I guess now, understanding the context and time in which she was telling you that, it seems extraordinary that she was giving you this message. the cause is lost and no matter what, nobody is going to marry you so at least try to be bright!” Now, as a child I thought she was actually telling me: “You are extremely ugly, you are never going to make it. I want you to study and to be economically independent.” ![]() I have to tell you that when I was a child, my mum used to tell me all the time: “Oh, you should never count on your face count on your intelligence. This is without any “feminist prejudice”-it’s fact. ![]() If we have more educated women, then we have more educated societies. ![]()
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