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Annie Ernaux
6 quotes
“I can no longer think of any way to change my life except by having a baby. I will never sink lower than that.”
Annie Ernaux (born 1940) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Mother Reader by Moyra Davey (Seven Stories Press, 2011), p. xvii
“I am beginning to reach the age when I say hello to the old women I meet in my neighborhood, anticipating the moment in life when I shall be one of them. When I was twenty I didn't notice them; they would be dead before my face had wrinkles.”
Annie Ernaux (born 1940) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in But Enough About Me by Nancy K. Miller (Columbia University Press, 2002), p. 96
“The worst thing about shame is that we imagine we are the only ones to experience it.”
Annie Ernaux (born 1940) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 184, ed. Tom Burns and Jeffrey Hunter (Gale, 2004), p. 164, and in The Poetics of Childhood by Roni Natov (Routledge, 2014), p. 220
“Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.”
Annie Ernaux (born 1940) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Melodrama after the tears, ed. Jörg Metelmann and Scott Loren (Amsterdam University Press, 2016), p. 178
“I love my life, I like to be cosmopolitan, I would like to visit the whole earth and love it all.”
Annie Ernaux (born 1940) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Dissolve by Nikki Gemmell (Hachette UK, 2021)
“I am endowed by shame's vast memory, more detailed and implacable than any other, a gift unique to shame.”
Annie Ernaux (born 1940) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in German #MeToo, ed. Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Simpson (Boydell & Brewer, 2022), p. 31