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“My relationship with my mother has a great deal to do with my relationship with my mother tongue. My mother always held me in her mouth, like a fiercely maternal animal -- but just so that she won't, can't, swallow me entirely, nor let me go. - "What You Write Is Nobody's Business": An Interview With Wong May (The Believer, May 2014)” — Wong May
My relationship with my mother has a great deal to do with my relationship with my mother tongue.
My mother always held me in her mouth, like a fiercely maternal animal -- but just so that she won't, can't, swallow me entirely, nor let me go.
- "What You Write Is Nobody's Business": An Interview With Wong May (The Believer, May 2014)