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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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