It is kind of lazy to just grab someone else's quote and re-use it like that, but I found this one so poetic and unusual that we can make an exception. Today, on Ceronetti's "Altrove" (his collection of almost daily quotes selected by him for the newspaper La Stampa), Anna Maria Ortese (note: I mean this quote to be "unusual" compared to what is usually quoted by Ceronetti himself and others on the italian media. It is quite straightforward in itself):

Sometimes I find myself looking into the pages of this or that history of a nation, or of all the nations, or just forgotten chronicles, and I watch emerging and passing by like lights faces of joyless women, yet more resistant than the others, faces of women braver than men, in the act of saying goodbye to someone or looking towards a aurora impossible for them. Women who left orders, flags, testaments, without whom each one of us wouldn't be a thing. Us, without these women, wouldn't even be. They are the woman, that is, humanity. Here is what I mean for being a woman: to be a part -- surfaced today -- of such obscure groups, of their bravery, to recall forever their ensigns of fire and light.