Ύμνος στη ζωή
Ζιζέλ Πελικό, 2024
A memoir about the love that sustains a life, and the strength to define yourself beyond what was done to you.
Feels like defiance, hope and grief. About identity, family and love.
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Sometimes love is what saves you—and what leaves you unguarded.
Η ιδέα μου για τη ζωή γεννήθηκε, πιστεύω, με την τελευταία πνοή της Μαμάς, όταν ο Μπαμπάς, γερμένος από πάνω της, μουρμούρισε το όνομά της ενώ εγώ πίεζα τον ώμο της παρακαλώντας τη να ξυπνήσει. Ένιωσα την αγάπη να με διαπερνά, μια απεριόριστη αγάπη που εκείνη τη στιγμή ήταν πιο δυνατή από τον θάνατο. Αυτό το συναίσθημα με έσωσε, με στήριξε και αναμφίβολα με παραπλάνησε, με τύφλωσε, δεδομένων όσων πέρασα αργότερα με τον Ντομινίκ. Ζιζέλ Πελικό.Gisèle Pelicot became internationally known for insisting that the trial concerning her husband’s crimes be held in public.
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- What is Ύμνος στη ζωή like?
- Feels like defiance, hope and grief. About identity, family and love.
- What should I read after Ύμνος στη ζωή?
- If you liked Ύμνος στη ζωή, try I Am Malala (Malala Yousafzai), The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch) and Strangers (Belle Burden).
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The kind of power that never gets called power.
Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don’t think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.
I Am Malala · Malala Yousafzai
The silence after you stop being corrected is not kindness.
He said, when you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that means they gave up. And that’s a lesson that stuck with me my whole life. Is that when you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care.
The Last Lecture · Randy Pausch
What an apology can build after it has arrived too late.
You were my child. I should have protected you. I lived a lifetime in the moment I read those lines, a life that was not the one I had actually lived. I became a different person, who remembered a different childhood. I didn’t understand the magic of those words then, and I don’t understand it now. I know only this: that when my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she’d been, she became that mother for the first time.
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