She actually turned out to be a great feminist and was a trailblazer for women's rights in Iran. She was a prominent founding member of Iran's underground women's rights group Anjoman Horriyyat Nsevan (The Society of Women’s Freedom), working for equal rights for women circa 1910. as a writer, a painter, an intellectual and an activist who hosted literary salons at her house once a week. She was the first woman in court to take off the hijab and wear western clothes.