I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement… — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums. — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
“As a child, I survived by forgetting. Later, the amnesia became a problem as large as the one it was meant to conceal. However, I did not remember my past until the homemade bomb was defused, until the evil was contained, until I was stable enough and happy enough that sorrow or anger or regret or pain was overwhelmed by… — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature. — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
“Imagine this: imagine you discover that for many years another person intimately shared your life without your knowing it. Oh, you had your suspicions… — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from… — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
“I wrap my mind around pain till it smothers in its own scream. (101)” — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm. — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may… — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
