“When you are babiest in a family with eleven older points of view, eleven disparate rallying cries, eleven demanding and pay-attention-to-me voices – all variations of the communal story – developing your own becomes a matter of survival. There can be, in this scenario, no neutral ground.”

“When you are babiest in a family with eleven older points of view, eleven disparate rallying cries, eleven demanding and pay-attention-to-me voices – all variations of the communal story – developing your own becomes a matter of survival. There can be, in this scenario, no neutral ground.”

— Sarah M. Broom