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.
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?
Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.
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