Man I feel like a woman!

In Satrapi's book, she portrayed her mother as a strong woman. However, I noticed in the movie that her mother was much stronger in one scene of the movie than in the book in particular. When her mom was confronted at the grocery store by the man who threatened to rape her, she shouted back at him in front of Marjane. In the book, we only see the mother after the traumatizing experience when she is in tears talking to her husband. Also in the book, Marjane was not with her mother when the offensive man confronted her mother. The mother tells the husband that she yelled at the man in the book, but she is also crying, and in our culture, we associate tears with weakness. Marji's mom proves to her daughter that women don't have to be weak even if they experience emotions. Bravo, Mrs. Satrapi!