Elena Ferrante Quotes

A woman's body does a thousand different things, toils, runs, studies, fantasizes, invents, wearies, and meanwhile the breasts enlarge, the lips of the sex swell, the flesh throbs with a round life that is yours, your life, and yet pushes elsewhere, draws away from you although it inhabits your belly, joyful and weighty, felt as a greedy impulse and yet repellent, like an insect's poison injected into a vein.

Elena Ferrante

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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

Barbara Ehrenreich
- People
- World
- Words
I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

Frances Fisher
- Doing
- Start
- Television
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Kary Mullis
- Desire
- Creative
- Active
I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.

Rachel Platten
- Music
- Women
- Feel
I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'

Salma Hayek
- Time
- Why
- She
What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

Nancy Sinatra
- Music
- Business
- History