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Dana Spiotta Quote: “Cleanliness, particularly personal cleanliness, was an assertion against madness. It was a declaration of control.”

51. “Cleanliness, particularly personal cleanliness, was an assertion against madness. It was a declaration of control.”

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Dana Spiotta Quote: “And saying yes to this version of her life would mean saying no to another version of her life.”

52. “And saying yes to this version of her life would mean saying no to another version of her life.”

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Dana Spiotta Quote: “What you don’t get from having a mother versus being a mother is how consuming it was, how profoundly one-sided. The child’s job was to need her mother less and less, a progression toward independence. But the mother’s job was to always help, always be there when needed, and never, ever stop worrying.”

53. “What you don’t get from having a mother versus being a mother is how consuming it was, how profoundly one-sided. The child’s job was to need her mother less and less, a progression toward independence. But the mother’s job was to always help, always be there when needed, and never, ever stop worrying.”

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Dana Spiotta Quote: “When I turned fifty, I was divorced, my son was grown up, and I realized I still had decades to go. It was the oddest thing – just as the culture began to lose interest in me, just as the world decided I was irrelevant, I began to feel more myself than ever. Louder, smarter, stronger. It felt truly adolescent, like I wanted to take drugs and drive fast and shave my head.”

54. “When I turned fifty, I was divorced, my son was grown up, and I realized I still had decades to go. It was the oddest thing – just as the culture began to lose interest in me, just as the world decided I was irrelevant, I began to feel more myself than ever. Louder, smarter, stronger. It felt truly adolescent, like I wanted to take drugs and drive fast and shave my head.”

— Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta Quote: “I used to worry about being more efficient. Now, I think, ‘Why? What is velocity, and why is that the ultimate value of everything?’ The process is really messy, but it’s so fun – and you discover weird things that you can only get from just meandering through stuff.”

55. “I used to worry about being more efficient. Now, I think, ‘Why? What is velocity, and why is that the ultimate value of everything?’ The process is really messy, but it’s so fun – and you discover weird things that you can only get from just meandering through stuff.”

— Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta Quote: “Only recently did it dawn on me all the things I will never do: I will never have an apartment in Rome. I will never have another lover. I will never radically change my life again.”

56. “Only recently did it dawn on me all the things I will never do: I will never have an apartment in Rome. I will never have another lover. I will never radically change my life again.”

— Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta Quote: “In your whole life, only in young childhood, and only if you were very fortunate, could you get a measure of innocence – a time free of knowing what will come, of what must come. Those moments, that simple engagement of only what was wonderful about being alive, that love, really, would be at the center of you forever; deep inside, you would have this tender core that believed everything would be okay.”

57. “In your whole life, only in young childhood, and only if you were very fortunate, could you get a measure of innocence – a time free of knowing what will come, of what must come. Those moments, that simple engagement of only what was wonderful about being alive, that love, really, would be at the center of you forever; deep inside, you would have this tender core that believed everything would be okay.”

— Dana Spiotta

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