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I compare my situation to a person on board a ship. When there is a shipwreck the passenger then falls in the ocean and has no choice but to keep swimming. What happened in our society was that the laws overturned every right that women had. I had no choice. I could not get tired, I could not lose hope. I cannot afford to do that.

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In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a women who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.

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If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.

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Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

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Shirin Ebadi

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Born: June 21, 1947 (age 73)
Bio: Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran.
Known for:
  1. Iran Awakening (2006)
  2. The Golden Cage (2011)
  3. Refugee Rights in Iran (2008)

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