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“For a writer such a love can represent the attainment of narrative authority over life itself. He imagines his baby grown up, wandering the world, seeing marvels. Confinement becomes freedom, ugliness beauty: parenthood is redemptive, transformative, creative. It is the means by which the self’s limits are broken open and entrance found to a greater landscape.”

“The question of what a woman is if she is not a mother has been superceded for me by that of what a woman is if she is a mother; and of what a mother, in fact, is.”