We enter into all major relationships with no real clue of … - Maureen F. McHugh

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We enter into all major relationships with no real clue of where we are going: marriage, birth, friendship. We carry maps we believe are true: our parents’ relationship, what it says in the baby books, the landscape of our own childhood. These maps are approximate at best, dangerously misleading at worst.

Maureen F. McHugh

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Maureen F. McHugh (born February 13, 1959) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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