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“There are bundles and bundles.”
Molière book Le Médecin malgré lui
Original: (fr) Il y a fagots et fagots.
Source: Le Médecin malgré lui (1666), Act i, scene 6. In this context, a fagot is a bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together.
“In your face, my brother, she is laughing at you.”
Original: (fr) À votre nez, mon frère, elle se rit de vous.
Variant: She is laughing in your face, my brother.
Source: Tartuffe (1664), Act I, sc. v
“Let's swear, my beauty, An eternal ardor.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
Act IV, sc. i
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)
Original: (fr) Jurons, ma belle,
Une ardeur éternelle.
Isabella Rossellini (1952) Italian actress and filmmaker
On how she never won an Oscar like her mother Ingrid in “Isabella Rossellini: ‘Ageing brings a lot of happiness. You get fatter – but there is freedom’” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/13/isabella-rossellini-ageing-brings-a-lot-of-happiness-you-get-fatter-but-there-is-freedom in The Guardian (2020 Oct 13)
Isabella Rossellini (1952) Italian actress and filmmaker
On being asked to be the face of Lancôme after being fired by a male executive decades earlier in “Isabella Rossellini: ‘Ageing brings a lot of happiness. You get fatter – but there is freedom’” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/13/isabella-rossellini-ageing-brings-a-lot-of-happiness-you-get-fatter-but-there-is-freedom in The Guardian (2020 Oct 13)
Isabella Rossellini (1952) Italian actress and filmmaker
On what she feels like she symbolizes now for Lancôme in “Isabella Rossellini: ‘Ageing brings a lot of happiness. You get fatter – but there is freedom’” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/13/isabella-rossellini-ageing-brings-a-lot-of-happiness-you-get-fatter-but-there-is-freedom in The Guardian (2020 Oct 13)
Shulamit Aloni (1928–2014) Israeli politician
שולמית אלוני, ישושון בלי דם ואש, דבר, 21 באוקטובר 1977 https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/dav/1977/10/21/01/article/151?&dliv=none&e=-------he-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1&utm_source=he.wikipedia.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=%22שולמית+אלוני%22&utm_content=itonut
“The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
January 1886, in a campaign speech given in New York https://www.history.com/news/teddy-roosevelt-race-imperialism-national-parks
1880s
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1880s
Source: Ibid, January 1886 https://www.history.com/news/teddy-roosevelt-race-imperialism-national-parks
Annie Ernaux book La femme gelée
Quoted in Mother Reader by Moyra Davey (Seven Stories Press, 2011), p. xvii
A Frozen Woman (1981)
Annie Ernaux (1940) French writer
Quoted in But Enough About Me by Nancy K. Miller (Columbia University Press, 2002), p. 96
Exteriors (1993)
“The worst thing about shame is that we imagine we are the only ones to experience it.”
Annie Ernaux book La Honte
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
Shame (1997)
“I love my life, I like to be cosmopolitan, I would like to visit the whole earth and love it all.”
Annie Ernaux book Mémoire de fille
Quoted in Dissolve by Nikki Gemmell (Hachette UK, 2021)
A Girl's Story (2016)
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)