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Mémoire de fille

Annie Ernaux Original title Mémoire de fille (French, 2016)
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“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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“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)

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