Anonymity Quotes

“If the family is where we first learn about ourselves and others, it is also often the cradle of misidentity and isolation. Our false fronts, the insincere roles we adopt to survive, the ways the "victims" of loss endure and recover, combined with our interpretations (affecting both the images that appear to us and how we ourselves are perceived), the early influences that give shape to sexuality--these are the shards that each of sorts and reassembles and, finally, must pour our lives from.”
― Susan Bergman, Anonymity: The Secret Life of an American Family

“No one stands on a rug that cannot be pulled out from under her...”
― Susan Bergman, Anonymity: The Secret Life of an American Family