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.

  

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

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
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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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• 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.

  

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• Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

  

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• Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

  

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  • World
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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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  • People
  • America
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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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• Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

  

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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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• Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

  

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• If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

  

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• The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

  

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• We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

  

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• I'm lucky that I've never been bullied personally. There are always going to be kids who are mean and say stuff, but the people that matter to you - the people you love, like your parents, your siblings, and your friends - those are the people you should listen to.

  

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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