“Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.” ChildrenBookStoriesMotherFoundLostJourneyCryIdentityDareMemoirCelebrateRemarkablePrimalCandidMother And ChildLost And Found Author:Mira Bartok
“I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.” MotherBlackIdentityPoetStrongerFeministWarriorIndivisible Author:Audre Lorde
“Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.” LongMotherIdentityReflectionFemaleMirrorsPhotographGlimpse Author:Debra Evans
“Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden-each strict, exacting. And with 'a crow's sky-knowing mind,' Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. Chloe Honum is 'one astounding flame' of a poet, and I predict a long-lasting one.” WayMindFirstsLongBookMotherLanguageEmotionPracticeCasesKnowingSkyIdentityPoetGardenSuicideBrilliantFlamesLastingBalletFormalStrictRestraintElegantCrowDivergentChloeLong LastingFailed Relationship Author:Claudia Emerson
“The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.” FactsChristianMotherLanguageIdentityHolyIslamTongueParadoxMother Tongue Book:In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong Source: In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.” KnowsMenMeanPersonsDifferentMotherChoicesEnjoyCareersWifeFeminismIdentityIncludingTraditionalFulfillmentFeminineAttributesOutlookPositive OutlookWomanlyOutlook On LifeWives And MothersPositive Outlook On Life Author:Phyllis Schlafly
“...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one thinks that a housewife, or a mother, or a typist has anything to develop.” ThinkingSelfFactsMotherOpportunityPleasureCasesAchieveIdentitySelf WorthBitterDevelopingReceivingSense Of SelfHousewife Author:Irena Klepfisz