Natalia Ginzburg

“What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken.”

“You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.”

“No adultery is bloodless.”

“When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.”

“Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.”