#WomeninLiterature

Dina Ferri

"The heavy grey fog shrouds the distant hills which seem to become one with the low menacing sky from which light snow flakes sometimes fall, and which, swept by the cold northern winds, float in the air like the petals of almond blossoms..." https://paralleltexts.blog/2015/05/10/quaderno-del-nullaa-notebook-of-nothings-by-dina-ferri-2/ https://paralleltexts.blog/tag/dina-ferri/

Margherita Guidacci

"I write words every day. I don’t know where it will lead me, writing. I know I could be still. He who knows does not speak. Mute in the womb of time..."   https://paralleltexts.blog/tag/margherita-guidacci/

Ada Negri

"Solaria, the south wind shakes and ravages your wisteria arbour. Your corymbs plummet to the ground, violet pips of hail..." https://paralleltexts.blog/2016/07/10/il-pergolato-di-glicinithe-wisteria-arbour-by-ada-negri/ https://paralleltexts.blog/tag/ada-negri/

Liliana Segre

"The trip to Auschwitz – very few speak about it because very few came back – is one of the most terrible chapters of the Shoah. Mine lasted six days, and for six days this humanity lived hoarded in the freight car with its misery, with its bodily functions, with its smell of sweat, of…Read more Liliana Segre