Catherine Shimmons’s Reviews > The Lion Women of Tehran > Status Update

“No matter where you go, when you are in a place of substance, the floor is covered with the rugs of our country. The artwork of our land. Meaning, in all these places, you are with the labor of Iranian women.

I had never thought about it that way. But as ever, my friend was making me see the smallest things in a way that made them not small things. She gave meaning to what would have been mundane.”

“Was this what it meant to mother someone? The constant worry, the strange hope, the feeling of wanting everything to go well for the child combined with morose anxiety if it didn’t?”

“If the revolution succeeds, what if what follows is worse?”

“We were in sync. I felt like we moved in a vacuum sealed off from the rest of the world in a funnel all on it’s own”