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“This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.”

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Marni Jackson

Marni Jackson, born in 1947, is an enigmatic figure with an unknown profession and category. more

“Every time I caught a fish, I wondered how something so small could have such clear, pure strength. It kept reminding me of another sensation, from another realm. The fish on the line, I eventually realized, felt like the baby, kicking inside you. Or the shocking, life-hungry pull of the baby on the breast. Perhaps fishing is like quickening for men, a long and patient wait for a few electric moments when they feel connected to another life.”

Men Feels Long Moments Felt Waiting Lines Clear Baby Pure Patient Caught Fishes Connected Hungry Realms Breasts Fishing Sensations Electric Shocking Kicking Reminding Another Life Quickening

Author:Marni Jackson

“Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?').”

Goes On Clouds Dry Afterlife Cleaners Housework Hassle Dry Cleaners

Author:Marni Jackson

“When a couple turns domestic, for the first while having to talk about the need for aluminum eaves troughing and other matters only gets in the way of the relationship. Then, magically, these negotiations take the place of the relationship.”

Way Needs Firsts Matter Turns Marriage Couple Negotiation Aluminum

Author:Marni Jackson

“Household hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never feels temporary or fixable. It has a shudder of the inevitable to it. The thought crosses your mind that when love goes it goes all at once, and forever.”

Feels Mind Marriage Forever Crosses Inevitable Cycles Temporary Household Showers Patches Meteors Hollowness

Author:Marni Jackson

“There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped having ear infections every three weeks, they emerged from the mother zone, and like everyone else, they forgot where they'd been. Amnesia surrounding motherhood is the rule, not the exception.”

Seems Kids School Mother Culture Three Week Ears Motherhood Holes Zone Exception Infection Amnesia

Author:Marni Jackson

“Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.”

Wells Company Wonderful Delusion Wonderful Things

Author:Marni Jackson

“It wasn't just that my breasts were sore and my legs seethed with restlessness at night. A knitted cap seemed to have settled on my brain as well. Never think that pregnancy is just a spare room in a woman's house; it changes everything - the heat, the light, the furniture.”

Thinking Wells Light Night House Rooms Brain Legs Heat Breasts Pregnancy Spares Furniture Caps Restlessness

Author:Marni Jackson

“At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.”

Soul Ends Moments Certain Photograph That Moment Projection Exit

Author:Marni Jackson

“We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous expensive journey to consult the oracle at Delphi. Today, if you want guidance, all you have to do is unplug your ears.”

Ifs Want Persons Long Today Wanted Journey Advice Involved Ears Ancient Eras Guidance Expensive Greece Oracles Ancient Greece Busybodies Delphi

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