A single woman can change the world |
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Today we celebrate the act of a single woman. Faced with a racist, murderous regime, she wormed her way into favor and then, with nothing more than her brains and looks, she turned the tables. She orchestrated the public hanging of the architect of a planned genocide, took power together with her brother, and reigned over a multicultural country wisely and benignly for years.
We imagine her, in that fabled Persia of long ago, lowering her eyes to her dainty shoes, eyelashes pointed at the lustful king from under a sheer, finely embroidered shawl from which a few long dark hairs have artfully escaped.
What would she make of a woman in today’s Tehran, photographed wearing red lipstick and dark hair flowing unrestrained past her shoulders, lighting a cigarette........