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”I seemed to be imprisoned in my own head, without the chance to test myself, and I was frustrated. There had been small alarming episodes, not normal impulses of depression, not a destructiveness expressed symbolically, but something more. Now these events have no before and after, they return to my mind in an order that is always different.”

”I seemed to be falling backward toward my mother, my grandmother, the chain of mute or angry women I came from.”

“I felt that I was suffocating, it seemed to me that I was betraying myself.” To be a mother.

”A woman’s body does a thousand different things, toils, runs, studies, fantasizes, invents, wearies, and meanwhile the breasts enlarge, the lips of the sex swell, the flesh throbs with a round life that is yours, your life, and yet pushes elsewhere, draws away from you although it inhabits your belly, joyful and weighty, felt as a greedy impulse & yet repellent, like an insect’s poison injected into a vein”

“you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.”

“How I suffered for her and for myself, how ashamed I was to have come out of the belly of such an unhappy person.” ):

"if I was still available to be blamed for their rages, their sorrows, in spite of the different continents and the spacious sky that separated us."

"the hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can’t understand."