Quotes from Marjane Satrapi

War always takes you by surprise.

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

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

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

To each his own way of calming down.

The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

One isn't born courageous, one becomes it.

You must base everything on these three rules: behave well, speak well, act well.

For a revolution to succeed, the entire population must support it.

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!

Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.

The key to wisdom is doubt!

Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

It's not disgusting, that little skin that hangs? The foreskin? No, it's okay. I think that generally speaking , a dick isn't really photogenic. I quite agree.

I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

I am the last prophet. A woman?

Night brings good counsel, my grandmother always told me.

Non si ha il diritto di autocompatirsi finché i propri problemi sono ancora accettabili... E quando invece non lo sono più, il solo modo di sopportare l'insopportabile è di riderci sopra.

Would you like to become my wife? Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!

We were not in the same social class but at least we were at the same bed.

To educate myself, I had to understand everything. Starting with myself, me, Marji, the woman.

One must educate oneself

Don't worry about it, my child. Tell yourself that you are experiencing a true love story. But of course. Have you ever seen anyone write a poem about the woman he married and who yells at him four times a day? Do you think that if Romeo and Juliet had had six children together, there would have been a book about them? You're suffering! That's why you're playing so well now!