Elena Ferrante Quotes

The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.

Elena Ferrante

• Mind
• Solitude
• Tradition
• Waste
• Separated

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• The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Mind
  • Solitude
  • Tradition