“Who are you, Dorothy?" she said beneath her breath. "Who were you, before you became Ma?”
“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
“she had never known who she was at all, except sometimes for a moment in meditation, when her I am became It is, and she breathed the stars”
“She put her hand to her head and was about to plead a headache when she glanced at Barbra, who gave her a look that said, I wouldn’t if I were you...”
“Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do.”
“You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe.If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.”