Marjane Satrapi Quotes

But is it her fault that she was born where she was born???

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

That day I learned something essential: We can only fell sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable...once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.

They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.

En la vida encontrarás muchos imbéciles. Si te hieren, piensa que es su estupidez la que les empuja a hacerte daño. Así evitarás responder a su maldad. Porque no hay nada peor en el mundo que el rencor y la venganza... Mantén siempre tu dignidad, tu integridad y la fidelidad a ti misma (p.159)

J'ai lu le Deuxième Sexe. Simone expliquait que si les femmes faisaient pipi debout, leur conception de la vie changerait.
Alors j'ai essayé. Ça coulait légèrement sur ma jambe gauche. C'était un peu dégoutant.
Assise, c'était bien plus simple. De pus, en tant qu'iranienne, avant d'uriner comme un homme, il fallait que j'apprenne à devenir une femme libérée et émancipée.

I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.

I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it.

"Night brings good counsel", my grandmother always told me.

Nothing’s worse than saying goodbye. It’s a little like dying.

Well depressive, I don't know. If you have a little sensibility or a heart you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy I just want to dance."

Chouka era muy divertida. Por desgracia, cuando dos años más tarde se casó, su esposo le prohibió verme. Para él, yo era una persona amoral

In every religion, you find the same extremists.