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Carmen Laforet
“It was easy for me to understand this language of blood, pain, and creation that begins with physical substance itself when one is a woman.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada
tags: menstruation, periods, unspoken-norm, woman, womanhood
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“I thought that any joy in my life had to be paid for with something unpleasant. Perhaps this was a fatal law.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada
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“Some creatures are born to live, others to work, others to watch life. I had a small, miserable role as spectator. Impossible to get out of it. Impossible to free myself. A dreadful grief was the only reality for me then.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada
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