‘I spend my time writing and researching outsiders for biographies, but it took me a while to realise that I was an outsider myself — which may explain why the stories I work with feel so much like home.’
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‘The road to modernism is littered with failure, and that’s exactly as it should be; the experiment might not have a tangible outcome.’
‘We look back on our ancestors and especially our female ancestors or impoverished ancestors from a standpoint of extraordinary privilege. ‘