“I've suffered so much. I raised my five kids with the water of my tear...” — Marjane Satrapi Quote

“I've suffered so much. I raised my five kids with the water of my tears, now they want to trade this key for my oldest son. All my life, I have been faithful to the religion. It it's come to this...”

“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.”

“The information I have about Iran is second hand.”

“My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.”

“I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.”

“The key to wisdom is doubt!”

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”

“I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.”

“I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.”

“Islam is not man's ultimate justification to do as he pleases--it is, instead, a religion built on reason and evidence. If each of us asks the ustaz for the causes of his religious opinions, then we should, by doing so, help realise the principles of Islam and thus improve intellectual discussion in our own community.”

“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”

“Religion isn't the problem; ignorance and hatred are.”