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“Many art theorists now believe that the reason for art’s ubiquity is that humanity has overcome natural selection… art signals our freedom. It exists because we’ve won the evolutionary war.”

“Mãe, you can have pleasure now because the soles of my feet are as hard as cypress.”

“But then Job was a man. Invisibility was intolerable to men. What complaint would a female Job dare to put forth? What shocked Job into humility and renewed fidelity was the message a female Job would have known and heard every minute of her life.”

“Mother hunger - to be one or have one - both of them were reeling from that longing which, Lina knew, remained alive, traveling the bone.”

“Pride, she thought. Pride alone made them think that they needed only themselves, could shape life that way, like Adam and Eve, like gods from nowhere beholden to nothing except their own creations… they were not family - not even a like-minded group. They were orphans, each and all.”

“If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving…”

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences”

“The men come and go, but the women stay put; they are trees rooted in solid ground. Around them revolve their own children and others they have taken in; they care for the aged, the ill, the unfortunate - they are the axis of the community… the more one suffers for family, the prouder one feels.”

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