5 quotes by Alda Merini in which it is easy to find yourself
He wrote about love, war, inner demons and the horrors of the asylum.
Alda Merini, born in 1931, was a sensitive but at the same time very strong woman. She spent a lifetime loving: her family, her four daughters, her two husbands, God and in the end she also learned to love herself.
Born in Milan, from which she escaped when she was only 12 years old because of the war, she soon abandoned her studies. Raised in poverty, she soon approaches poetry. The only times he abandons her are due to her being admitted to psychiatric hospitals due to problems with her first husband. "You go to an asylum to learn how to die" writes the woman, she who managed to survive in the asylum and finally comes out after the Basaglia law of 1978, which required its closure.
On Tuesday, November 12, a special will be broadcast on Rai Storia on the life and work of Alda Merini, the "madwoman" as she ironically called herself. We have collected 5 of her most famous quotes in which it is easy for all of us to see each other again, that's why after all these years we continue to love her. She taught us that with her words.
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1. “The best revenge? Happiness. There is nothing that drives people more crazy than seeing you happy. "
A real life lesson, like the one a mother would give us. Happiness, however, is no real revenge except in the eyes of an evil person. It is useless to waste your life by having negative feelings towards those who have hurt us. Moving on is always the most effective solution.
2. "I always wake up fit and deform through others."
How many times do we feel cute and then it takes very little to feel sad. How easy it is to feel this way, when they ask us if we are fat, when we get married, when we have a child. Yet we cannot stop people from asking us things. We must learn to live with others and with their lack of tact. then, they are just questions.
3. "I'm not beautiful, I'm just erotic."
It is a life, that of women, studded with models of unapproachable beauty. Yet, although we will never be like Kim Kardashian, we all have the right to feel sensual, desired and desirable.
It is part of us and we know that it is not possible to feel irresistible every day. This was the compromise that Merini had found. Each should seek their own.
4. "I should apologize to myself for believing that I am not enough."
And we should all do it for all those times we took the blame for something that didn't depend on us and for all those times we didn't have enough courage. We must dare, try, make mistakes. It is not possible to know oneself without comparison.
5. "I'm not a tameable woman."
Who needs wives, mothers, more covered, more uncovered, more smiling, more serious, thinner, more shapely, more silent.
To those who think that women are all the same.
To those who do not consider us equal.
All these people need to be explained that we are not tameable. We are not made for cages and bridles. We are made to be free. And if Alda Merini succeeded with such a difficult life, we will all succeed.
