“ It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, an… Gabrielle Hamilton
“ Alone on the terrace looking up at the stars I would not feel lonely. With him glued to the screen, I feel gutted... Gabrielle Hamilton
“ I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be. Gabrielle Hamilton
“ Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life. Gabrielle Hamilton
“ I was firmly in the out-of-sight-out-of-mind camp, and had cogent, unflinchingly honest declarations I frequently made about losing a shared context, and sentimentalism, and the general faint hearted… Gabrielle Hamilton
“ I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With nothing more than pitocin in your IV drip, you can sooner control the date and time of the birth of a… Gabrielle Hamilton
“ How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? Gabrielle Hamilton
“ Every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with “allergies” to dairy and wheat—cheese and bread basically—but also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed “allergies,” I… Gabrielle Hamilton
