Lise Movig’s Reviews > Shame > Status Update

‘What matters to me is to find the words I would use to describe myself and the world around me; (…). But the woman of 1995 can never go back to being the little girl of 1952, who knew nothing beyond her small town, her family and her convent school, and who had a limited number of words at her disposal. With the immensity of time stretching ahead of her. We have no true memory ourselves’ (25).