Ursula K. Le Guin quote: There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother ...

There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to ...

~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~

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