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"In pregnancy, your body becomes inhabited by a stranger, by a guest who is stranger than any other guest you’ve ever hosted, insofar as you have never even met; and yet also closer and more intimate than any other, insofar as they are, really, a part of yourself.In pregnancy, you become strange to yourself, estranged from who you once were, from what your body used to be or mean or contain, so that your body turns into something that you no longer fully understand.In pregnancy, the distinction you once knew between self and other comes undone. So does the gap between how you protect yourself and how you care for others." - Lily Gurton-Wachter
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Experiences of pregnancy, maternity, and child-rearing have historically been absent from literature.In fact, Rivka Galchen quips in Little Labors, ""literature has more dogs than babies""
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If motherhood is an obliteration or disintegration of the self, then how can that erased mother write?
"Here’s the catch:I cannot hold my baby at the same time as I write." - Maggie Nelson
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Don't extreme experiences radically alter the self, and in that alteration creates the possibility of narrativisation by producing new languages, metaphors, knowledges, experiences and hitherto unknown ways of thinking? "[A] baby literally makes space where there wasn’t space before." - Maggie Nelson