Anne Enright

I didn’t say any of this to my sister. How I saw her being broken into mediocrity and motherhood; her body broken and then her mind – or did her mind go first, it’s sort of hard to disentangle – and then for her to turn around and say Broken is Best, I didn’t say how that made me furious beyond measure.

I didn’t say any of this to my sister. How I saw her being broken into mediocrity and motherhood; her body broken and then her mind – or did her mind go first, it’s sort of hard to disentangle – and then for her to turn around and say Broken is Best, I didn’t say how that made me furious beyond measure.

– Anne Enright –

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