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Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.

Elena Ferrante

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Elena Ferrante
Age: 54
Novelist
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Napoli
Women
Spite
Coexist
Whole
Inevitable
Mutually
Real
Envy
Affinity
Good
Affection
Prevail
Competition
Solidarity
Sense
Jealousy
Feelings
Indispensable
Cohort
Doe
Sudden
Peaks

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