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“I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.”

Thinking Mother Alive Worried

Author:Martha Wainwright

“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.”

“It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.”

People Thinking Way Firsts Book Remember Mother Sides Alive Written Conversation My Way My Sister Continuing Sisters And Mothers

Author:Nigella Lawson

“[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.”

Has Beens Said Stills Stories Mother Alive Chickens Plato Pupils

Author:Plato

“When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.”

Children War Mother Alive Military Healthy Extraordinary Shirts Civil War Dictatorship T Shirt Extraordinary Things Defying Whereabouts

Author:Liya Kebede

“[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.”

Writing Firsts Children Age Mother Father Alive Poet Eight Mother And Father Pissed Off Odes Dead Mother

Author:Judith Viorst

“My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up.”

Ifs Trying Stills Mother Asks Alive Add Busy Phones Call Me Too Busy Hang Ups

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.”

Knows Feels Mean Mother Silence Known Alive Terrible Sorrow Do You Know

Book:The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919

“What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.”

Ifs Writing Mean Doe Made Sometimes Moments Used Mother Girl White Laughing Alive Wife Cry Tears Tough Decided Nuclear Tragic Scratches Messy Antigone Writing Poems Nuclear Families

Author:Juliana Spahr

“Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.”

Way Children Feelings Mother Easy Alive Emotional Burden Damage Absent Orphan Knots Filial

Author:Eileen Simpson

“Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.”

Light Faces Mother Perfect Alive Swimming Amber Swimmer Dead Mother

Author:Allen Tate