When we're born, our experience is half the time spent undoing these ideas that were placed onto our body since birth and then building a personal identity on top of that. (Morgan Parker (writer))

When we're born, our experience is half the time spent undoing these ideas that were placed onto our body since birth and then building a personal identity on top of that.

Morgan Parker (writer)

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