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“it is so clear to me that we need to take better care of our mothers and prioritize them being gatekeepers to their own happiness instead of being slaves to our own”

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“Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art Not many have style Not many can keep style I have seen dogs with more style than men, although not many dogs have style. Cats have it with abundance. When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun, that was style. Or sometimes people give you style Joan of Arc had style John the Baptist Jesus Socrates Caesar García Lorca. I have met men in jail with style. I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail. Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done. Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water, or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.”

Life Art Style

Author:Charles Bukowski

“I am always chasing my children. I remember feeling chased as a child, but I never remember my mother chasing me. Perhaps she did not. Perhaps this is why I am the person I turned out to be.”

Motherhood Mothers Womanhood Brutes Girlhood Growingup Dizztate

Book:Brutes

Source: Brutes

“Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?”

Writing Liberation Mothers

Book:Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

Source: Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

“A mother's life is sacred. Even a badly behaved mother's life is sacred—witness my foul cousin Clytemnestra, adulteress, butcher of her husband, tormentor of her children—and nobody said I was a badly behaved mother. But I did not appreciate the barrage of surly monosyllables and resentful glances I was getting from my own son.”

Motherhood Parenthood Mothers Bad Parents

Book:The Penelopiad

Source: The Penelopiad

“Perhaps I'd felt all along, even when I lived with him, that I was passing the time, that my life hinged on the single moment when I'd learn that my mother was dying. Then I would set everything aside.”

Childhood Mothers

Book:Walking on the Ceiling

Source: Walking on the Ceiling

“There is no greater coward than the doctor who brings his weapons of war and death against a child in the womb of its confused mother.”

Doctors Confused Abortion Mothers Death Quotes Abortion Quotes Weapon Quotes Womb Quotes

Author:Paul Bamikole

“It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers.”

Mother History Duty Daughter Mothers Daughters Advice For Women

Book:Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Source: Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

“Mother is a verb as well as a noun. We all, male and female, have the capacity to mother others. And each of can, always, mother ourselves.”

Love Life Mothers Carers

Book:Circle of Life: Inspirational Poetry for Mothers and Other Carers

Source: Circle of Life: Inspirational Poetry for Mothers and Other Carers

“She supposed that was the nature of things – sons look to their fathers when they are healthy and to their mothers when they are hurt.”

Mothers Fathers Sons

Book:Hungry Ghosts

Source: Hungry Ghosts

“…she performed the expected neighborly duties: presenting tuna-noodle casseroles to the sick, taking in the mail and newspapers of those on vacations so their houses wouldn’t be targeted by burglars, babysitting the occasional dog or cat. Though not the occasional baby: even when my mother offered, parents of babies hesitated. Could they have picked up on her invisible but slightly alarming aura? (Invisible to others; she claimed that she herself could see it. Purple, according to her.) Maybe they were afraid they’d return to find their infant in a roasting pan with an apple in its mouth. My mother would never have done such a thing, however. She was evil, but not that evil.”

Humor Mothers Daughters

Book:Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

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