Marjane Satrapi Quotes

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.

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.

The information I have about Iran is second hand.

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