Elena Ferrante Quotes

All the more reason, then, to wonder why I had confessed what was so much my own to strangers, people very different from me, who would therefore never be able to understand my reasons, and who surely, at that moment, were speaking ill of me. I couldn’t bear it, I couldn’t forgive myself, I felt I had been flushed out.

Elena Ferrante

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• I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Everyone
  • Century
  • Underdog

• I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Team
  • Same
  • Inequality

• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Friends
  • Black
  • Rock

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
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• OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Boy
  • Magic
  • See

• If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.

  

  Lance Gross
  • She
  • Woman
  • Facebook

• A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Car
  • Gun

• In literature, older women are not often given center stage.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Women
  • Literature
  • Stage

• Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Friend
  • President
  • Boss

• Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Better
  • Discriminated

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Music
  • Die

• Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Fight
  • Interests
  • Funds

• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Change
  • Like
  • Attitude

• Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold

• I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • World
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• What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • May
  • Mean
  • Independence

• It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure, ... I can't tell people what flag to fly.

  

  Lesley Stahl
  • People
  • Fly
  • Flag

• Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Science

• I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.

  

  Schoolboy Q
  • Stupid
  • Grades
  • Fifth

• One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Past
  • Reason
  • Next

• Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Men
  • Reason
  • According

• I would rather remember even if sometimes it can be very painful.

  

  Giovanni Morassutti
  • Painful
  • Remembering

• All the more reason, then, to wonder why I had confessed what was so much my own to strangers, people very different from me, who would therefore never be able to understand my reasons, and who surely, at that moment, were speaking ill of me. I couldn’t bear it, I couldn’t forgive myself, I felt I had been flushed out.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Reason
  • Forgive
  • Strangers