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When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until there is nothing left but dry bone and wig. She is winning-needless to say she has had so much more experience.

Maureen Howard

I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom of some cruelly bred plant; admiration for the world spread for the world to see on my gullible face-unlike my other face with the sour look of a starved peasant.

Maureen Howard

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

Maureen Howard

Maureen Howard

Maureen Howard

Born: June 28, 1930

Died: March 13, 2022 (aged 91)

Bio: Maureen Howard was an American writer, editor, and lecturer known for her award-winning autobiography Facts of Life.

Known for:

A lover's almanac (1983)
Facts of Life (1978)
Bridgeport bus (1965)
Natural History (1992)
The Rags of Time: A Novel (2009)

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