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Mothers took their children’s behavior so personally, and Sarah thought it was a waste of energy, because when you were a mother you had zero control, and having a child was a tremendous act of optimism bordering on magical thinking. It was
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“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
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“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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