Natalie Goldberg Quote
My desolation was that no one knew me and I did not know myself. My family's life was my life. I knew nothing else. I was clothed, fed, given a bed to sleep in, encouraged to marry early and rich, and loved in a generic way -- I was the big one, which meant the older and my sister was the 'little one --but no one spoke to me, no one explained anything.
Natalie Goldberg
My desolation was that no one knew me and I did not know myself. My family's life was my life. I knew nothing else. I was clothed, fed, given a bed to sleep in, encouraged to marry early and rich, and loved in a generic way -- I was the big one, which meant the older and my sister was the 'little one --but no one spoke to me, no one explained anything.
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