Harriet Clark
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460 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Aug
Harriet Clark’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And also the fact that my grandmother and I did have this difference, right?
Because she always knew we were inside a tragedy.
She always felt this should not be as it is.
And I fundamentally did accept the life I had and still found much of it meaningful and delightful even.
You know, it's interesting because from the outside, people have often been struck by my mother's abandonment of me.
And I know that that is touched on.
This idea of the mother abandoning her child is touched on often in the book.
But my actual lived experience was of my mother's profound devotion to me.
Because, you know, most people have to share their mothers with the world.
You know, their moms have partners and jobs and other things.
kids and friends and every time I saw my mother all she was doing was giving me attention I was her whole world and so I didn't have the feeling of
of being abandoned by my mother in my kind of conscious reality.
I'm sure something in me did feel fundamentally abandoned in life.
I think I've always felt somewhat precarious, but I didn't feel abandoned by my mother.
And because her love for me was so present, it was never confusing to me why she'd had a child.
I could see how much she wanted a child.
I could see
how much she loved me.
And I was also, you know, if you're raised in a women's maximum security facility, you're raised around women who are perpetually being de-mothered, whose mothering is being disrespected.
And I've never wanted to imply that my mother was less of a mother to me because she had other commitments.
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