Natalia Ginzburg — Italian Author born on July 14, 1916, died on October 07, 1991

Natalia Ginzburg née Levi was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States... (wikipedia)

No adultery is bloodless.
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.
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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.