Azar in Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi:

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Manna: ‘I am scared of myself. Nothing I do or have is like that of others around me. Others scare me. I scare me.’ Throughout, from start to finish, I observe that they have no clear image of themselves; they can only see and shape themselves through other people’s eyes- ironically, the very people they despise.