Marjane Satrapi Quotes

As for me, I sealed my act of rebellion against my mother’s dictatorship by smoking the cigarette I’d stolen from my uncle two weeks earlier. Kofff! Kofff! Kofff!!! It was awful. But this was not the moment to give in. With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown-up.

In retrospect, I can see that I had always known that it wouldn't between us. But after my pitiful love story in Vienna, I needed to believe in someone again...

The Key to Paradise was for poor people. Thousands of young kids, promised a better life, exploded on the minefields with their keys around their necks.

And so I was lost, without any bearings... what could be worse than that?

To die a martyr is to inject blood into the veins of society

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

Guns may shoot and knives may carve, but we won't wear your silly scarves!

The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else's rules.

One must educate oneself

Ouch! What are you doing, Karl, you broke my skull!

Vais conhecer muitos idiotas na vida. Se te magoarem, lembra-te que é porque são estupidos. Assim, não vais reagir à sua crueldade, porque não há nada pior do que ser amargo e vingativo. mantem sempre a tua dignidade e sê verdadeira contigo mesma.

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.

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.

When it comes to married life, character takes precedence over looks...

It’s wonderful to have international friends.