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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