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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
"Mitra: other women say that having children is their destiny as if they are doomed." I added: "Some of my girls are more radical than I am in their resentment of men. All of them want to be independent. They think they cannot find men equal to them. They think they have grown and matured, but the men in their lives have not bothered to think." (38)
"Much later I read a sentence by Nabokov--"curiosity is insubordination in its purest form"--the verdict against my father came to mind."
"I had mentioned that Humbert was a villain because he lacked curiosity about other people and their lives, even about the person he loved most, Lolita" (48)
"After all, it takes two to create a relationship, and when you make half the population invisible, the other half suffers as well." (70)
"It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else's shoes and refrain from becoming too ruthless." (118)
"My father, who all through my childhood would read me Ferdowsi and Rumi, sometimes used to say that our true home, our true history, was in our poetry." (172)
"The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country, his home, was that of the imagination." (216)
"Evil in Austin, as in most great fiction, lies in its inability to "see" others, hence to empathize with them. What is frightening is that this blindness can exist because of us (Eliza Bennet) as well as the worst (Humbert). We are all capable of becoming the blind censor, of imposing our visions and desires on others." (315)
IMO like her point about women as symbol/measures of freedoms
disagree with her point about her students' "choices"
"Much later I read a sentence by Nabokov--"curiosity is insubordination in its purest form"--the verdict against my father came to mind."
"I had mentioned that Humbert was a villain because he lacked curiosity about other people and their lives, even about the person he loved most, Lolita" (48)
"After all, it takes two to create a relationship, and when you make half the population invisible, the other half suffers as well." (70)
"It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else's shoes and refrain from becoming too ruthless." (118)
"My father, who all through my childhood would read me Ferdowsi and Rumi, sometimes used to say that our true home, our true history, was in our poetry." (172)
"The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country, his home, was that of the imagination." (216)
"Evil in Austin, as in most great fiction, lies in its inability to "see" others, hence to empathize with them. What is frightening is that this blindness can exist because of us (Eliza Bennet) as well as the worst (Humbert). We are all capable of becoming the blind censor, of imposing our visions and desires on others." (315)
IMO like her point about women as symbol/measures of freedoms
disagree with her point about her students' "choices"