Shirin Ebadi Law Quotations

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

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.

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants.