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With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

Mary Oliver
Childhood, World, Dysfunctional Family
"Maria Shriver Interviews the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver". Interview with Maria Shriver, www.oprah.com. March 09, 2011.
With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.