352 Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

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

The way that you remember your life, it’s never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren’t equal; they have different styles.

I respect humanity. That’s my religion. I can’t stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that’s going to buy a really nice house in heaven – or what? I don’t get it.

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

A cat can never be well-trained because they’re too independent.

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

I don’t like ‘graphic novel.’ It’s a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating – it’s just a media type.

When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It’s not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn’t work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it’s really cool.

Here’s the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.