"I was born in Tehran at a time when women's rights were deteriorating at a rampant rate. My parents didn't want to raise their daughter in a social, political, and religious climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls, so they emigrated to London. But the struggle of the Iranian people was permanently etched in my social consciousness from a young age."

-- Nazanin Boniadi

#Girl Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Religious Quotes

“Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.”
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
“Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.”
“I always complain because I'm old now and everything hurts.”
“Gratitude is what we are without a story.”
“Since inner peace is the source of all happiness, we can see how important meditation is.”
“If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.”
“There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.”

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