Elena Ferrante Quotes
I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn’t want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew now to be not only a man in the right way, but also a woman.
Elena Ferrante
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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Carly Schroeder
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Natasha Henstridge
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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Fefe Dobson
'Ghost Rider' definitely has an appeal that's far beyond comics.
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I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn’t want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew now to be not only a man in the right way, but also a woman.
Elena Ferrante
