Quote by: Elfriede Jelinek

I thought back to all the times I’d slept with a girl and not thought twice about it and my gut ached. If a girl doesn’t safeguard herself, who will? I’d always had the mentality that men will change when women change but I never thought about how safeguarding the girls around me was just as much my responsibility as it was theirs.


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Author Bio


  • NameElfriede Jelinek
  • DescriptionAustrian writer
  • BornOctober 20, 1946
  • CountryAustria
  • ProfessionWriter; Playwright; Screenwriter; Poet; Translator; Novelist
  • WorksThe Piano Teacher; Women As Lovers; The Children Of The Dead
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Georg Büchner Prize; Walter-Hasenclever-Preis Der Stadt Aachen; ; Franz Kafka Prize; Heinrich-Böll-Preis; Stig Dagerman Prize