Quotes from book
La femme gelée

Annie Ernaux Original title La femme gelée (French, 1981)
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“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 book La femme gelée

Quoted in Mother Reader by Moyra Davey (Seven Stories Press, 2011), p. xvii
A Frozen Woman (1981)

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