"I'm a pacifist," Satrapi noted on
RandomHouse.com. "I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms, I think countries should invest in scholarships for kids to study abroad. Perhaps they could become good and knowledgeable professors in their own countries. You need time for that kind of change, though." Brought up in a liberal tradition in her own home, Satrapi was early on aware of people of different cultures through firsthand knowledge of people from many other countries. "If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country," Satrapi further explained on
RandomHouse.com, "they will hate a little less. . . . That is why I wanted people in other countries to read
Persepolis, to see that I grew up like other children." And speaking with Rebekah Denn of the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Online, Satrapi explained why she chose to examine her topic in graphic-novel format rather than as a prose narrative: "That is my way of expressing myself, and I think the pictures, they say always more than the words can say. Also, in pictures, they help me to have the distance without becoming cynical, and be able to describe a part of the story with humor--which I couldn't do otherwise."
An Ordinary Princess
Satrapi was born in 1969 into a well-connected Iranian family.
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