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- MY SISTER, GUARD YOUR VEIL. MY BROTHER, GUARD YOUR EYES>
- This is so unfair!!
- You might notice that her gait and her gestures have changed. It is in her best interest not to be seen, not be heard or noticed, She doesn't walk upright, but bends her head towards the ground and doesn't look at passersby.
- She will pass slogans on the walls, quotations from Khomeini and a group called the Party of God: MEN WHO WEAR TIES ARE U.S LACKEYS. VEILING IS A WOMAN'S PROTECTION. Beside the slogan is a charcoal drawing of a women: her face is featureless and framed by a dark chador. MY SISTER, GUARD YOUR VEIL. MY BROTHER, GUARD YOUR EYES.
- If she gets on the bus, the seating is segregated. She must enter through the rear door and sit in the back seats, allocated to women. Yet in taxis, which accept as many as five passenger, men and women are squeezed together like sardines, as the saying goes, and the same goes with minibuses, where so many of my students complain of being harassed by bearded and God-fearing men.
- In the course of nearly two decades, the streets have been turned into war zone, where young women who disobey the rules are hurled into patrol cars, taken to jail, flogged, fined, forced to wash the toilets and humiliated as soon as they leave they go back an do the same thing.
- Is she aware, Sanaz, of her own power? Does she think how vulnerable the Revolutionary Guards are who for over eighteen years have patrolled the streets of Tehran and have had to endure young women like herself, and those of other generation, walking, talking, showing a strand of hair just to remind them that they have not converted?Fe
- Although,they came from very different backgrounds, the regime that ruled them had tried to make their personal identities and histories irrelevant. They were never free of the regime's definition of them as Muslim women.
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