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I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

- Alexandra Fuller
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I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.

Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another. We ask movie directors why they chose to use certain lights and angles and speeds of film, but most of the time, we ignore the craft of a writer.

There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!

I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to an airstrip - the only flat piece of land around. That was my world as a three-year-old and sums up the indelible power of memory to a young child.

It seems very clear to me that we, in the West, cannot afford to continue assuming propriety over the world's resources in a careless, greedy way without paying for it - not only with the lives of our loved ones, but also with our souls.

It is the perpetual tragedy of all families: each of us believe our congenital pathologies and singular pains end with us.

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