Simin Daneshvar Quotes

We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.

I grew up in a house of forthright women.

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

The ability of women is not known because they are relegated to the business of procreation, child-rearing, and breast feeding.

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women

We don't need to be men in skirts to have a role in politics. Women can be leaders by being sensitive women.

I am a woman. I definitely have a woman's perspective. I'm also a mother, and I think, because of that, I feel responsible to try and make a difference.

I consider all women as mother. I compose poems for any female considering her as mother.

I think that the 21st century will be feminine, that it's women who will, perhaps, find a way out for this world.

I love my mother, my wife, my sisters very much. I honour and respect them. Women are the keepers of the family.

It's sort of fair to say that Amazons, both as reality and as a dream of equality, have always been with us; it's just that sometimes that fiery Amazon spirit is hidden from view or even suppressed.

High respect goes out to our mothers, our single mothers. This is why today the real community uplifts femininity and holds womanhood above, not equal to, masculinity.

It has always been important for women to empower other women.

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.