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“My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.”

Self Mother Term Pieces Accepted Savages

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.”

Children Mother Wise Offers Accepted Fortunate Shocking Flirting Maidens Papa

Book:The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

“One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.”

Men Mother Race Mistake Atheism Originals Positive Atheism Accepted Servant

Book:His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

“By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.”

People World Kind Has Beens Mother Imagination Hell Amount Exercise Weight Accepted Shoulders Generous Lenient

Author:Maya Angelou