Elena Ferrante Quotes

A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.

Elena Ferrante

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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

Eavan Boland
- Time
- Society
- Changes
I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

Lady Starlight
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

Vern Buchanan
- You
- Race
- Lose
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Salman Rushdie
- Time
- World
- Great
When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

Beck
- First
- Generation
- Kid
Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

Laura Mvula
- People
- Life
- Star