“What do we want from our mothers when we are children? Complete submission. Oh, it's very nice and rational and respectable to say that a woman has every right to her life, to her ambitions, to her needs, and so on — it's what I've always demanded myself — but as a child, no, the truth is it's a war of attrition, rationality doesn't come into it, not o…
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