"In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage."

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Source : Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.7, Beacon Press

Nancy Mairs

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