What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her. (Jamaica Kincaid)

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

Jamaica Kincaid

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