12.
Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives (Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, 2010), 29.
13.
"I am the state!"
14.
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays, Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007), 12.
15.
Simit is a popular street food made with dough and sesame.
16.
Moyra Davey, ed., Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001), 11.
17.
Laure Adler, Marguerite Duras: A Life (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2000), 217.
18.
Patricia L. Moran, Word of Mouth: Body Language in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996).
ALSO BY ELIF SHAFAK.
The Forty Rules of Love.
The b.a.s.t.a.r.d of Istanbul.
The Saint of Incipient Insanities.
The Gaze.
The Flea Palace.
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