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.
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Middle-class families know education begins at birth.
Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchisin g them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.
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