Quote #40

In our age women have proved that in a fight they march by the side of men or ahead of them.

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  2. Men ascend to high Heavens from the lap of the women.
  3. A child's first school is the mother's lap.
  4. I observe a wonderous change in the community of women, far beyond that of men.
  5. I need no financial aid. I fight the Shah with a pen and a sheet of paper and, if I needed help, my nation will help me.
  6. Iranian women have a larger part than men in this Movement and Revolution.
  7. I would rather be called servant than leader. Leadership is not the issue, service is topical. Islam has made it incumbent on us to serve.
  8. Not only Shiism does not exclude women from the arena of social life, rather, it places women in their lofty human station.

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