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“A boy, at best, can adore his mother, but a girl can understand her. When the doctor told me it was a girl, I thought, Now I will be understood.”

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Book:Bliss Montage

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“Странно, — прибавила Фиа с искренним недоумением, — для меня всегда было загадкой, что он в тебе особенное нашел… что ж, наверно, все матери немножко слепы и не понимают своих дочерей, пока не состарятся и не перестанут завидовать их молодости. Ты так же плохо понимаешь Джастину, как я плохо понимала тебя.”

Mothers Daughters

Book:Поющие в терновнике. Книга 2

Source: Поющие в терновнике. Книга 2

“This was a typical statement from my mother: lucid, opinionated, explicitly impatient of opposing views. Her dominance of the family, and her certainties about the world, made things usefully clear in childhood, restrictive in adolescence, and grindingly repetitive in adulthood.”

Mothers Family Dynamics

Book:Nothing To Be Frightened Of

Source: Nothing To Be Frightened Of

“Even today, with no spaces left on the shelves and walls, my octo-genarian mother builds stock off fanciful garden decor: a patch of copper whirligigs among the crepe myrtles, concrete tortoises creeping around the succulents, a ceramic Mediterranean pot that could house a small family.”

Mothers Decor Gardens Tortoises California Back Yard

Book:Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl

Source: Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl

“And he'd agreed with her about all of it, except he hadn't agreed really; he'd just lost the arguments.”

Arguing Mothers Arguments Parent And Child

Book:About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“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”

Poetry Mental Health Mothers Poetry Love Poetry Quotes Love Poetry Life Poetry Books Poetry Quote Poetry Of Life Poetry Quotations

Book:poems written by a late bloomer

Source: poems written by a late bloomer

“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

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