Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Marjane Satrapi
- It’s fear that makes us lose our conscience. It’s also what transforms us into cowards.
- I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
- 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.
- 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.
- You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.
- In any case, it’s the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!
- I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn’t even know anymore why I was living.
- I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn’t comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.
- Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.
- 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 is an Iranian-born French author, graphic novelist, and filmmaker, known for her autobiographical graphic novel series, Persepolis. She was born on November 22, 1969, in Rasht, Iran, and grew up in Tehran.
During her childhood and teenage years, she witnessed the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Iran-Iraq War, and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in her country. These experiences would later shape her artistic and political views.
In the early 1990s, Satrapi moved to France to study art and started creating graphic novels. Her most famous work, Persepolis, is a coming-of-age story that depicts her experiences growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. The book was published in four volumes between 2000 and 2003 and has been translated into several languages.
In addition to her graphic novels, Satrapi has directed several films, including the animated film adaptation of Persepolis in 2007, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. She has also written and directed several other films, including Chicken with Plums (2011) and The Voices (2014).
Satrapi has been recognized for her work with numerous awards, including the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Comic Book in 2001, the César Award for Best First Feature Film in 2008, and the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. She continues to work as an artist and filmmaker, exploring themes of identity, politics, and culture in her work.
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