Farah Pahlavi: Quotes about women

Farah Pahlavi is Empress of Iran. Explore interesting quotes on women.

Farah Pahlavi: 30 quotes1 like

“The people of Tehran, from whom I came, were giving me their trust, adopting me, honoring me, although I had done nothing yet either for them or for Iran. I felt so moved and overcome that I promised myself I would do everything in mypower for these men and women, and for the children I could see perched everywhere.”

Farah Pahlavi

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Publications, An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah (2004)

“I follow the works of Iranian artists even now, sometimes in Paris or in New York and I am happy Iranian artists are still great. Whether they are men or women, they have always been great. Despite all the pressure and censorship inside the country, they haven't been able to stop the creativity of our artists. Some have to work underground, like in cinema, and sometimes their work has political messages, but the number of our artists now has definitely grown in comparison to the past.”

Farah Pahlavi

Former queen of Iran on assembling Tehran's art collection http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/01/queen-iran-art-collection, The Guardian, (August 1, 2012). <br class="br">Interviews

“I came and knelt at the king's feet, and when he put the crown on my head, I felt that he had just honoured all the women of Iran. Only four years earlier we had been in the same category of the mentally handicapped: we did not even have the basic right of choosing our representatives. The crown wiped out centuries of humiliation; more surely than any law, it solemnly affirmed the equality of men and women.”

Farah Pahlavi

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Publications, An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah (2004)

“[The king] would assure me, a long time later, that he had said "I love you" to only three women. "One of them is you," he told me.”

Farah Pahlavi

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Publications, An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah (2004)