Elena Ferrante Quotes

You had to hide everything from men. They preferred not to know, they preferred to pretend that what happened at the hands of the boss miraculously didn’t happen to the women important to them and that—this was the idea they had grown up with—they had to protect her.

Elena Ferrante

• Women
• Hands
• Protect
• Hide
• Pretend

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• I just want to do my job.

  

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• My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

  

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• Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

  

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• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

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• There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

  

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• I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

  

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• It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

  

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• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  

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• I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

  

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• It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

  

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• I remember, when I lived in a refugee camp, it was the people who weren't Somali, the people who came from Western countries, who helped the most. I remember being six and thinking, 'I want to be one of those women,' because I knew how much they helped us.

  

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• If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.

  

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• You had to hide everything from men. They preferred not to know, they preferred to pretend that what happened at the hands of the boss miraculously didn’t happen to the women important to them and that—this was the idea they had grown up with—they had to protect her.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Women
  • Hands
  • Protect