moms
My mother has always given me problems because she is enlightened and reactionary at the same time.
Jeanette Winterson • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
I was furious with myself for literally birthing into existence a love so strong it could wreck my life.
Chloé Cooper Jones • Easy Beauty: A Memoir
My main access to the esteem of my peers—who were, with few exceptions, mostly young, white, able-bodied men with family money—was in how little I had despite how hard I worked. This, plus my disability, plus motherhood, bathed me in a tragic light, which, if I stepped into it just right, lit me up with the look of moral superiority. I could wield
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mothers are required to play multiple roles in interacting with, teaching, and caring for their deaf children.
Michele Ilana Friedner • Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India
“We want mothers to notice everything, they need to see everything.”
Michele Ilana Friedner • Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India
She wants all relationships in the house to run through her.
Gillian Flynn • Sharp Objects: A Novel
but my mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby.
Gillian Flynn • Sharp Objects: A Novel
Is this what mothers did, wonder if you might need safety pins?
Gillian Flynn • Sharp Objects: A Novel
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