“To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Embroideries
“To be the mistress of a married man is to have the better role. Do you realize? His dirty shirt, his disgusting underwear, his daily ironing, his bad breath, his hemorrhoid attacks, his fuss, not to mention his bad moods, and his tantrums. Well all that is for his wife.
When a married man comes to his mistress... he's always bleached and ironed, his teeth sparkle, his breath is like perfume, he's in a good mood, he's full of conversation, he is there to have a good time with you.”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Embroideries
“One isn't born courageous, one becomes it.”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Embroideries
“It's not disgusting, that little skin that hangs?"
"The foreskin? No, it's okay. I think that generally speaking , a dick isn't really photogenic."
"I quite agree.”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Embroideries
“Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Embroideries
“Love is the opposite of good sense.”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Embroideries
“Tu oublies que tout le monde n'a pas ta force, ni ton courage..."
"On ne nait pas courageux, on le devient".”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Embroideries
“Would you like to become my wife?"
"Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Embroideries
“I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Embroideries
“Parler derrière le dos des autres est le ventilateur du couer.”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Embroideries
“I've never seen or touched anything."
"Can you explain then how you had children?"
"You're right. It's true I have four kids. Four! But still I have never seen the male organ. He came into the bedroom, he turned off the light, and then Bam! Bam! Bam! and voila I was pregnant! What's more, I was granted four girls. So I have never seen penises.”
― Marjane Satrapi, quote from Embroideries
Marjane Satrapi
Born place: in Rasht, Iran
Born date November 22, 1969
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“The son of a cripple might be a cripple, but the son of tigers won’t be a dog.”
― Will Wight, quote from Unsouled
“You’re a beautiful man with a beautiful heart.”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked Under
“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living—one without massacres and torn throats and bonfires of the fallen, without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers’ arms to take their turn in the killing and dying.
Once, the lovers lay entwined in the moon’s secret temple and dreamed of a world that was a like a jewel-box without a jewel—a paradise waiting for them to find it and fill it with their happiness.
This was not that world.”
― Laini Taylor, quote from Days of Blood and Starlight
“The cause of suffering is desire,”
― Arthur C. Clarke, quote from The Garden of Rama
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from Lady Windermere's Fan
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