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“My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it.”

“Moms are, in my opinion, the wonders of the universe. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound, they can go where no person has gone before, and they can somehow get toddlers to eat. The problem is that mothers are also some of the most stressed people on the planet. There's just so much to do and not enough of them.”

People Persons Enough Problem Mother Universe Wonder Opinion Gone Building Planets Mom Bounds Leap Tall Stressed Toddler Tall Buildings

Book:What a Difference a Mom Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Mom Leaves on Her Son's Life

Source: What a Difference a Mom Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Mom Leaves on Her Son's Life

“Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.”

Hands Mother Father Struggle Band Strive Bounds Breasts Weary

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.”

Years Firsts Long Two Bigs Mother White Pieces Feet Stones Twenties Bounds Rounds China Wounds Crush Grandmother Two Years Sole Inward Toes My Grandmother Arches Bending Two Year Olds

Author:Jung Chang