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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• 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 no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.

  

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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.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
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• People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

  

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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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• Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

  

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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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• There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.

  

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• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  

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• My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

  

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• Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

  

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• I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?

  

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• Coming in, I wanted to be a great player, and right now at the beginning of my career, I'm showing some slight sunshine that I can be the player I want.

  

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• I speed up past mirrors.

  

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• I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

  

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• In England women are still occasionally used instead of horses for hauling canal boats, because the labour required to produce horses and machines is an accurately known quantity, while that required to maintain the women of the surplus population is below all calculation.

  

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• Under the international agreements, the Russian peacekeepers are committed to protect the population of South Ossetia.

  

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• Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

  

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• I know what I like, and I'm not trying to search for who I am.

  

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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