A Woman's Story Quotes

“I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“I shall never hear the sound of her voice again. It was her voice, together with her words, her hands, and her way of moving and laughing, which linked the woman I am to the child I once was. The last bond between me and the world I come from has been severed.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“Ya no volveré a oír su voz. Es ella, con sus palabras, sus manos, sus gestos, su manera de reír y de caminar, la que unía a la mujer que soy con la niña que fui. Perdí el nexo con el mundo del que salí.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“Parting with one's family was invariably seen as a sign of misfortune. (In Norman French, "ambition" refers to the trauma of separation; a dog, for instance, can die of ambition.)”
― Ernaux Annie, A Woman's Story

“She knew all the household tips that lessened the strain of poverty. This knowledge - handed down from mother to daughter for many centuries - stops at my generation. I am only the archivist.”
― Ernaux Annie, A Woman's Story

“Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“Me parece que ahora escribo sobre mi madre para, a mi vez, traerla al mundo.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“It’s stupid not to know when in our lives we’ll be happiest.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“Living with us was like living in a world that welcomed her and rejected her at the same time.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“Because she feared people wouldn't love her for who she was, she hoped they would love her for what she could give.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“Ci rivolgevamo la parola con quel tono particolare, un misto di irritazione e perenni rimostranze, che faceva sempre pensare, a torto, che stessimo litigando, e che saprei riconoscere, tra una madre e una figlia, in qualsiasi lingua.”
― Annie Ernaux, Une femme

“İnsan zihnini donatmalı.”
― Annie Ernaux, Une femme

“Eğitimli olmak istemekle, eğitimli olmak arasında uçurum olduğunu da keşfetmiştim.”
― Annie Ernaux, Une femme

“Bana sunduğu tek şey endişesi ve şüphesiydi.”
― Annie Ernaux, Une femme

“Etrafta bunca sefalet varken toplumsal ilerleme için çırpınmak tüm anlamını yitirmişti.”
― Annie Ernaux, Une femme

“... bana bu konuda hiçbir şey söylemedi, ben de ona herhangi bir şey sormaya cesaret edemezdim çünkü merak zaten ahlaksızlığın başlangıcı gibi düşünülüyordu.”
― Annie Ernaux, Une femme

“İnsanların ona olduğu gibi sevmeyeceklerinden korktuğu için, vereceği şeylerle sevilmeyi umuyordu.”
― Annie Ernaux, Une femme

“Bilgiden daha güzel hiçbir şey yoktu. Özen gösterdiği yegâne nesne kitaptı.”
― Annie Ernaux, Une femme

“Önemli biri" olduklarını sanarak kendilerini çevreleyen sınırları aşarlarmış.”
― Annie Ernaux, Une femme

“I feel such emptiness at the thought: this is the first spring she will never see. (Now I can feel the power of ordinary sentences, or even clichés.)”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“Nobody knows that I am writing about her. But then, in a sense, I feel I am not writing about her. It’s more like experiencing again the times and places we shared when she was alive.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“insanların onu olduğu gibi sevmeyeceklerinden korktuğu için vereceği şeylerle sevilmeyi umuyordu”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“We had gone back to addressing each other in that particular tone of speech- a cross between exasperation and perpetual resentment- which led people to believe, wrongly, that we were always arguing. I would recognize that tone of conversation between a mother and her daughter anywhere in the world.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“In the afternoon, she settled down at the living room table with her writing pad and her address book, like she used to. She started several letters but, after an hour, found she couldn’t go on and tore up everything she had written. One of these letters, written in November, read: ‘Dear Paulette, I remain in darkness.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“dünyanın her yerinde, her gün bir kadının etrafını sarmış, onu taşlamaya hazır erkekler var”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“dünyanın her yerinde, her gün bir kadının etrafını sarmış, onu taşlamaya hazır erkekler var.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“Für alle war es besser, dass sie tot war.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“Liebe Paulette, ich habe die Finsternis noch nicht hinter mir gelassen.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story