39 Quotes & Sayings By Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1963. She left Iran with her family when she was ten years old. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she earned a degree in graphic design. Satrapi's first collection of comic stories, Persepolis, was published by Pantheon Books in 2000 Read more

The book won numerous awards including the Grand Prix de la nouvelle at Angoulême International Comics Festival and the Special Jury Prize at the 2001 Angoulême International Comics Festival. It has been translated into English, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish and French. Persepolis is to be made into a movie by Pixar Animation Studios.

I want to be justice, love and the wrath of...
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I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one. Marjane Satrapi
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In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself. Marjane Satrapi
I had learned that you should always shout louder than...
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I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor. Marjane Satrapi
I have always thought that if women's hair posed so...
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I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald. Marjane Satrapi
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and...
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When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression. Marjane Satrapi
They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck...
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They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned. Marjane Satrapi
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The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me? No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it liveable? What's going on in the political prisons? Marjane Satrapi
Ouch! What are you doing, Karl, you broke my skull!
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Ouch! What are you doing, Karl, you broke my skull! Marjane Satrapi
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I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book. Marjane Satrapi
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Would you like to become my wife?"" Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream! ! ! Marjane Satrapi
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I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast. Marjane Satrapi
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Love is the opposite of good sense. Marjane Satrapi
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To be the mistress of a married man is to have the better role. Do you realize? His dirty shirt, his disgusting underwear, his daily ironing, his bad breath, his hemorrhoid attacks, his fuss, not to mention his bad moods, and his tantrums. Well all that is for his wife. When a married man comes to his mistress.. he's always bleached and ironed, his teeth sparkle, his breath is like perfume, he's in a good mood, he's full of conversation, he is there to have a good time with you. Marjane Satrapi
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I've never seen or touched anything."" Can you explain then how you had children?"" You're right. It's true I have four kids. Four! But still I have never seen the male organ. He came into the bedroom, he turned off the light, and then Bam! Bam! Bam! and voila I was pregnant! What's more, I was granted four girls. So I have never seen penises. Marjane Satrapi
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Men's pride is situated in their scrotums. Marjane Satrapi
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Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home! Marjane Satrapi
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I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable. Marjane Satrapi
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I wanted to be JUSTICE, LOVE, and the WRATH OF GOD all in one. Marjane Satrapi
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Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves. Marjane Satrapi
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In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves! Marjane Satrapi
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You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist. Marjane Satrapi
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Oh my! ! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls. Marjane Satrapi
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The key to wisdom is doubt! Marjane Satrapi
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I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists. Marjane Satrapi
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We can only feel 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. Marjane Satrapi
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Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion? Marjane Satrapi
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Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words. Marjane Satrapi
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The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people. Marjane Satrapi
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If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think. Marjane Satrapi
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When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn't work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it's really cool. Marjane Satrapi
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I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email. Marjane Satrapi
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When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine. Marjane Satrapi
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If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface. Marjane Satrapi
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All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same. Marjane Satrapi
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It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me. Marjane Satrapi
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Cinema is a world of imagination. Marjane Satrapi
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I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium. Marjane Satrapi
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Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure. Marjane Satrapi