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like his mother, a portrait on the wall topic/female-subjugation

[...] “I understand,” I retorted, “so if reputation doesn’t count and a woman of forty-three is free to act like a girl in search of a husband, if you yourself approve all this, you mean that I, too, could … ” ‘What do you have to do with it?” he immediately interrupted, in an irritated, reproachfu…

—p.147 Forbidden Notebook Forbidden Notebook (7) by Alba de Céspedes
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maybe I’m the one who doesn’t want them inspo/revelation project/panopticon-diaries

can’t imagine what it would be like to be together without having children in front of you, it just sounds like a big blank. What are you going to do, travel? To see what? What would you be moving toward? What else would you be living for? Sex? Companionship? Being? Without the forward straining wh…

—p.78 Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
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I don’t want that, you understand? inspo/revelation

I went to the kitchen and started frying the potatoes, then the eggs. I think Mirella was lying, and in any case, if she destroyed the diary, she did it after meeting Cantoni. Soon she joined me and asked if I needed help. She rarely offers, so I looked at her with amazement. She’s really a pretty …

—p.118 Forbidden Notebook Forbidden Notebook (7) by Alba de Céspedes
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I get embarrassed and pretend to be joking

I thought that for Michele and me it would be different. We were young: just married, we would leave for Venice, we’d have a big room on the Grand Canal. My mother often said she’d had to fight with her parents for a long time in order to marry my father; she had decided to run away with him, if th…

—p.96 Forbidden Notebook (7) by Alba de Céspedes
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5 months ago

maybe I’m the one who doesn’t want them inspo/revelation project/panopticon-diaries

can’t imagine what it would be like to be together without having children in front of you, it just sounds like a big blank. What are you going to do, travel? To see what? What would you be moving toward? What else would you be living for? Sex? Companionship? Being? Without the forward straining wh…

—p.78 Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin