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“You are such a home to me.”

Love Home Romance Family

Book:Heart Berries

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“In my mother's time, [pain] was a secret burden, and women were admired for their ability to ignore, to be silent, to be selfless.... Now we can speak it, and that's true healing, not a problem--to admit there is some constant pain.”

Pain Progress Women S Liberation

Book:Heart Berries

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“Sometimes I know part of me is still a ghost, walking next to my mother, looking for something to make an offering to, holding her hand. Either this feeling means that part of me is dead, or that she's alive, somewhere inside of me.”

Mothers Death Of A Loved One Family Relationships Mothers And Daughters Mothers And Children

Book:Heart Berries

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“I was not right to want to die. I didn't want to leave my family. I liked my mind and its potential. I knew the type of burden I was. I was like my mother.”

Suicide Mothers

Book:Heart Berries

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“Romanticism requires bravery and risk.”

Risk Bravery Romanticism

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“I can hear my aunt's voice, telling me that if my security depends on a man's words or action, I've lost sight of my power.”

Power Confidence

Book:Heart Berries

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“Today, in front of a slew of white authors, during a fellowship, with a drink in my hand, I said that I was untouchable. There was a gasp, and maybe it was a hundred years of work for my name to arrive here, where I can name my pain so well that people are afraid of the consequences and the power.”

Writing Women Of Color Native American Writer

Book:Heart Berries

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“Pain expanded my heart.”

Abuse Survivors Native American Literature Native Memoir

Book:Heart Berries

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