Persepolis

Satrapi was interviews by Emma Watson for Vogues “Our Shared Shelf” bookclub. The two talked about the relative freedom that women shared in Iran in the 1970’s. Satrapi raised a very important point about educated women in Iran. She said that they have more rights because they can ask for a divorce, but if a woman is uneducated and not economically sound with children you stay with that man. She continues to say that 70% percent of women in Iran are in school because they want to learn. She wants a fair economy for girls to study in. “If women are educated, they will be economically independent and they will just accept less shit. That is the first step toward democracy.”

 

 

Simon Hattenstone interviewed Marjane Statrapi when Persepolis was announced its film adaption. In this interview she stated that Persepolis was dismissed by the Iranian Government for being Isamophobic. She’s not a religious figure, she’s an artist she says. The interview says Marjane wrote Persepolis when she was 29, and not anytime earlier because her world view was angry and it would be rubbish she said. Her world was divided into good and bad people

 

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