I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

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Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

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I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

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