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Simonetta Agnello Hornby


Born
in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
November 27, 1945


Simonetta Agnello Hornby is an Italian lawyer and writer born in Palermo in 1945, who later acquired British citizenship. She left Sicily at the age of 21 to get married in England. Simonetta Agnello Hornby studied English at Cambridge before returning to her native Sicily to complete a law degree. Armed with a Fullbright grant she moved to America for a year to furthered her studies. She returned to the UK to begin a legal career and to live and later marry the Englishman she had met in Cambridge with whom she had two children. She has been living in London since 1972, and is the President of the Special Education Needs and Disabilities Court.

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“La dignità si deve mantenere, sempre, ma l'orgoglio porta male.”
Simonetta Agnello Hornby, La zia marchesa

“La vita è come una treccia, ogni ciocca è importante e ha un significato. La prima è quella del dovere, che abbiamo tutti e che significa obbedienza; la seconda è quella della roba – chi l'ha deve stare attento a non farsela arrubbare e chi non l'ha ha soltanto la fame nelle budella e la vulissi assai – e la terza è quella dell'amore. E se una ha tutte e tre le ciocche belle forti, la treccia è bellissima e vive felice. Ma assai fimmine hanno la prima ciocca bella folta, mentre le altre due sono sottili. Se riescono a intrecciarsi la treccia bella non è, ma tiene, e la vita continua. Se invece la ciocca dell'amore addiventa troppo forte e quella del dovere è debole, la treccia non regge e si disfa: tre devono essere le ciocche, così è”
Simonetta Agnello Hornby, La zia marchesa

“Belle sono le mani di quelle che hanno amato, anche se soffrono, loro hanno conosciuto la cuntintizza. Vale la pena innamurarsi.”
Simonetta Agnello Hornby, La zia marchesa

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