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💬 am nearing the end of VOL3 and Ferrante is locking tf in, despite the one who shall not be named ...N.... returning to the pages (my crabbiness about preferring VOL1+2 is being swaaayeeed)

📚 354
I discovered everywhere female automatons created by men. There was nothing of ourselves, and the little there was that rose up in protest immediately became material for their manufacturing.

📚352
Maybe there's something mistaken in this desire men have to instruct us; I was young at the time, and I didn't realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn't like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn't want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman.

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We struggled to understand what a woman was. Our every move or thought or conversation or dream, once analyzed in depth, seemed not to belong to us. And this excavation seemed to exasperate those who were weaker, who couldn't tolerate such an excess of self reflection and believed that to embark on the road of freedom it was enough to simply cut off men.

bluebeard by perrault and the yellow wallpaper by perkins. especially bluebeard. pietros ugly BLUE suit

lenu - bluebeard. lila - the yellow wallpaper.