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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 m...

Marjane Satrapi

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 m...

Tags: europe, iran, love, lust, married, men, mistress, pros, sex, women

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

They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.

Tags: censorship, fear, iran, iranian revolution, police, secret police

About Author
Marjane Satrapi (French: [maʁʒan satʁapi]; Persian: مرجان ساتراپی [mæɾˈdʒɒːn(e) sɒːtɾɒːˈpiː]; born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Her best-known works include the graphic novel Persepolis and its film adaptation, the graphic novel Chicken with Plums, Woman, Life, Freedom and the Marie Curie biopic Radioactive.

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

Marjane Satrapi

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

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

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.

Tags: iran, love, marriage, seperation, testicles, west

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 hersel...

Marjane Satrapi

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 hersel...

Tags: opression

Despite the doctor’s orders, I bought myself several cartons of cigarettes (…) I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become som...

Marjane Satrapi

Despite the doctor’s orders, I bought myself several cartons of cigarettes (…) I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become som...

Don't let it get to you, mom! The Western media also fights against us. That's where our reputation as fundamentalists and terrorists comes from.You're right. Between one's fanaticism and the other's...

Marjane Satrapi

Don't let it get to you, mom! The Western media also fights against us. That's where our reputation as fundamentalists and terrorists comes from.You're right. Between one's fanaticism and the other's...

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 s...

Marjane Satrapi

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 s...

Tags: love, society, cancer

En la vida encontrarás muchos imbéciles. Si te hieren, piensa que es su estupidez la que les empuja a hacerte daño. Así evitarás responder a su maldad. Porque no hay nada peor en el mundo que el renco...

Marjane Satrapi

En la vida encontrarás muchos imbéciles. Si te hieren, piensa que es su estupidez la que les empuja a hacerte daño. Así evitarás responder a su maldad. Porque no hay nada peor en el mundo que el renco...

Tu oublies que tout le monde n'a pas ta force, ni ton courage...On ne nait pas courageux, on le devient.

Marjane Satrapi

Tu oublies que tout le monde n'a pas ta force, ni ton courage...On ne nait pas courageux, on le devient.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

Marjane Satrapi

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else's rules.

Marjane Satrapi

The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else's rules.

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

Marjane Satrapi

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

Tags: reading

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

Marjane Satrapi

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

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.

Marjane Satrapi

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.

Tags: foreskin, genital, photogenic

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 he...

Marjane Satrapi

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 he...

Tags: freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, political, rebellion

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

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!

Tags: austria, experience, immigrants, iran, p267, war

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

Marjane Satrapi

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

Cuando entré en su habitación estaba llorando... No pertenecíamos a la misma clase social, pero al menos estabamos en la misma cama

Marjane Satrapi

Cuando entré en su habitación estaba llorando... No pertenecíamos a la misma clase social, pero al menos estabamos en la misma cama

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

Marjane Satrapi

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

Tags: humor, memoir, young adult