Mary Gauthier

When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus.

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I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting.

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Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

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I did not know that if a member of a family serves, the whole family serves. I did not know that the spouses of our service members carry such a heavy load.

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If I start tracing, I bet I will find a writer in my family tree.

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People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

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I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I've spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain.

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The belief when your mother gives you away is that there's something deeply wrong. Mothers don't give babies away. There's something wrong with me, something unlovable, something seriously flawed in me. It's a fundamental thing; it's precognitive. You feel it rather than think it. How could you not?

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I learn something every time I go to work with a veteran. Every single time.

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I have such a good life. It's something I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams.

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Quotes by Mary Gauthier