"من، پرستو؛ دختری که می‌خواهم برای مردمی که دوستشان دارم بخوانم. این حقی است که نمی‌توانستم از آن چشم بپوشم؛ خواندن برای خاکی که عاشقانه دوستش دارم. اینجا، در این نقطه از ایران عزیزمان، در این تکه‌ای که تاریخ و اسطوره‌های ما به هم پیوند می‌خورند، صدای من را در این کنسرت فرضی بشنوید و خیال کنید، این وطن زیبا را…"

"For a religion that wants to kill people, after eighty years, I will remove my hijab."

"Sattar (my son) wanted a free Iran, eliminating poverty, and happiness of people."

"I have no problem with anyone if [he/she] spoke under the whip."

"Hundreds and thousands of people were killed in every change."

"Even if instead of me and Ismail, you put all five thousand Hafttepe workers in front of the camera and force them to confess with whips and batons, it will still not detract from the essence of the story that you are oppressors and corrupt."

"The beatings begin. His name is Ismail... he is an Arab... They ask him the name of the operation, he shouts in Arabic: I don't know, the tortures are getting more and more and the torturers are shouting "impure! Speak Persian." The sound of torture is so painful that it hurts me too."

"Regarding the origin of your existence, do you have a belief? if I will say yes, why should you believe? else if I will say no, why should you believe that? when you put pressure on a person, she has to behave according to your wishes."

"Whoever is closer to the wheels of the revolution, the more dangers lie in wait for him/her."

"Not every man is greater than every woman, nor every woman inferior to every man."

"But to be fair, in any covenant and time and in any land and place, has it ever happened that someone was told "my darling…" and she replied "shut up"? If a man doesn't say thousands bad words to a woman and doesn't hurt her, that woman won't give an ugly answer even once."