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“In the midst of severe pain, I practiced my own death. I died over and over again becoming one with mystery, no boundaries remaining between this form I call my body and the cosmos.”
― Eva Tuschman Leonard, Bodywork

“I have to go back/ to that wet black thing/ dead in the road. I have to turn around./ I must put my face in it.”
― Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems

“But guilt at the missing details hampered my ability to remember, forced me to put off asking more detailed questions. It was already clear that I would one day (when I became that better version of myself) open a special notebook and sit down with my mother, and she would start at the very beginning, and then there would be some meaning to it all – and a system, a family tree, and every cousin and nephew would be in their rightful place, and at the end of it there would be a book.”
― Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory

“I am' includes all that has made me so. It is more than a statement of immediate fact: it is already an explanation, a justification, a demand - it is already autobiographical.”
― John Berger, About Looking