Geral(dine)’s Reviews > Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay > Status Update

💬 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.

📚351
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.

📚 347
I had wanted to become something - here was the point - only because I was afraid that Lila would become someone and I would stay behind. My becoming was a becoming in her wake. I had to start again to become, but for myself, as an adult, outside of her.

📚 317
"(...)You always use 'true' and 'truthfully', when you speak and when you write. Or you say: 'unexpectedly'.(...) You know better than I that it's all a fraud and that one thing follows another and then another. I don't do anything 'truthfully' anymore, Lenú. And I've learned to pay attention to things. Only idiots believe that they happen 'unexpectedly'.

📚 308 =
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 well!!!! well!!!! well!!!!!!!!

📚 309
"Marriage by now seemed to me an institution that, contrary to what one might think, stripped coitus of all humanity."

📚 298
(...)Whereas my husband never praised me but, rather, reduced me to the mother of his children; even though I had an education he did not want me to be capable of independent thought, he demeaned me by demeaning what I read, what interested me, what I said, and he appeared willing to love me only provided I continually demonstrate my nothingness.

📚287 - Nadia about Lila(Lina)& Elena
"I prefer her to you. You're two pieces of shit and nothing can change you, two examples of underclass filth. But you act all friendly and Lina doesn't."

💬 Elena has the freedom and education to discover and engage with text and think groups on more radical feminism "wir pfeifen auf Hegel" while Lila mocking it, is certainly living it out more than Lenu herself