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.
Interpretation
To achieve success, one may need to work significantly harder than others, especially in a challenging environment.
This quote highlights the challenges faced, particularly by women, in pursuing education and career opportunities. Marjane Satrapi reflects on her mother's advice, emphasizing the necessity for extraordinary effort and dedication, notably in fields such as math and language, to overcome societal expectations and barriers.
In practice
In a speech about women's empowerment in education, you might use this quote to inspire young girls.
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.
I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.
I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.
Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.
You can't just declare that you have a growth mindset. Growth mindset is hard.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
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