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21 " Women among women know how not to feel alone. "
― Marcela Serrano , Ten Women
22 " I never dreamed that one day it would be one of my favorite everyday words. Fuck this, fucking that, don’t give a fuck. I love it. It’s perfect for emphasis! "
23 " I felt like the most despicable woman in the world for allowing my mother to be a vagabond and not lifting a finger to rescue her. Other nights I cried from rage, from pure hatred, and I couldn’t rid myself of it. Hatred is like blood, it’s impossible to conceal and it stains everything. "
24 " أشعر أحياناً بأنني مُستعملة ، الرجال لا يشعرون أبداً بهذا الشعور لأنهم حتى عندما يُستعملون لا ينتبهون إلى ذلك ويظنون انهم من يَستعملون "
25 " my friends would say to me, You, insecure, when you’re that beautiful? I would reply, The one has nothing to do with the other. "
26 " the only truth is that every human being is a small island. You can build bridges, but you’ll always be an island and everything else is a lie. "
27 " Hace unos días encontré, entremedio de sus papeles, el discurso que dio el arquitecto Renzo Piancuando cuandofue galardonado con el Pritzker. Natasha había subrayado la siguiente frase: «… y asi seguimos remando contra la corriente empujados sin pausa hacia el pasado. Es una imagen maravillosa, que representa la condición humana. El pasado es un refugio seguro, una tentación constante y, sin embargo, el futuro es el único sitio donde podemos ir». "
28 " Perhaps the solution is to have a little project every day. If there’s no reason for you to get up in the morning it really doesn’t matter if you are alive or dead. "
29 " At times I think I made a mistake by demonstrating how energetic and efficient I am. It’s impossible for them not to take advantage of me. On the days when I wake up feeling far from charitable, I see my husband as a cannibal. He feeds off my vitality, like a vampire. Sometimes, when I’m alone, I lower my guard and collapse in exhaustion. "
30 " I go to great lengths to be a good mother. I’m constantly revising my attitudes, which detracts from the spontaneity, and I will be judged for it in the future, there’s no doubt. You always do badly as a mother, if not because of this, then because of that. The guilt will always be there, no matter what. "
31 " therapy and its medications are a luxury. "
32 " I think that one person’s story is always part of other people’s stories. "
33 " Houses are very important. Describe your house and I’ll tell you who you are. Your world is there. It’s what covers you, like a bird’s feathers. "
34 " traveling allows you to discover things that remain hidden during the normal routine of daily life. "
35 " they wear knee-high or ankle boots, never shoes. "
36 " I recently turned forty-two, a complicated stage of life. You’re young, but not very, you’re not elderly, but you are a bit old. Neither fish nor fowl. It’s the transition from one thing to the other, the real start of deterioration. Sometimes I feel like I want to have aged already, to be an old woman who has resolved all her expectations. "
37 " He had a conventional notion of culture. He thought that going to the theater or ballet and keeping up-to-date with the movie listings made you cultured. I, on the other hand, learned to believe in the depth of experience: returning ten times to the art gallery near my house to look at that Kandinsky again because I identified with its shapes, on a deep level, in my soul. I didn’t care at all whether it was fashionable and I didn’t attend the concerts my father timidly suggested. For me music worked better in the solitude of my room than it did live. "
38 " But I’m hesitant to introduce myself with this characterization, immediately reducing everything I am to my alcoholism. It’s strange that the tendency in this global world is to accentuate identities, picking the one that most marginalizes you—sexuality, race, disability. I’m struck by the way we all rush to join our particular group, emphasizing what makes us different from everyone else, in order to make us all the same. "
39 " In every life there’s a full moon. As long as you can recognize it, at least, you can enjoy it and feel crystal clear and complete. "
40 " Husbands, in general, tend to complain a lot, "