“The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.”
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“Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.”
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the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.”
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“I’ve been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings?”
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“To my daughter I will say, when the men come, set yourself on fire.”
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
― Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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