It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
Interpretation
Women in Iran face significant legal inequalities but pursue education vigorously.
In this quote, Marjane Satrapi highlights the stark contrast between the legal rights of women and their academic achievements in Iran. Despite having only half the rights of men, a remarkable majority of students in higher education are women, showcasing their determination to succeed in an environment that restricts their rights.
In practice
In discussions about gender inequality in education, this quote serves as a powerful reminder of women's resilience.
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.
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.
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth.
Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see... Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No - we will not do that.
Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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