Mariam

“The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“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.”
― Marcela Serrano, Ten Women

“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.”
― Marcela Serrano, Ten Women

“Women among women know how not to feel alone.”
― Marcela Serrano, Diez mujeres