Marjane Satrapi Quotes

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Marjane Satrapi

War, Stupid, Real

All big changes of the world come from words.
Marjane Satrapi

Words, Big, Changes

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.
Marjane Satrapi

Time, Best, Country

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.
Marjane Satrapi

Made, Tell, She

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.
Marjane Satrapi

Time, Everything, Else

Image is an international language.
Marjane Satrapi

Language, Image

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.
Marjane Satrapi

Life, Education, Important

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
Marjane Satrapi

Women, Men, True

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
Marjane Satrapi

Work, Mother, Hard

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
Marjane Satrapi

Human, Writing, Drawing

The information I have about Iran is second hand.
Marjane Satrapi

Second, Hand, Iran

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.
Marjane Satrapi

Love, Living, Cinema

Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.
Marjane Satrapi

Greatest, Loved, Whether

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Biography

Nationality: Iranian

Type: Artist

Born: November 22, 1969

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