“I am endowed by shame's vast memory, more detailed and implacable than any other, a gift unique to shame.”

— Annie Ernaux , book Mémoire de fille

Quoted in German #MeToo, ed. Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Simpson (Boydell & Brewer, 2022), p. 31
A Girl's Story (2016)

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