“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.” IfsTryingStillsMotherAsksAliveAddBusyPhonesCall MeToo BusyHang Ups Author:Erma Bombeck
“Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, personal and even remarkably honest phone calls I always wanted so intensely I forbade myself to imagine them. How strange. Perhaps Shaw was correct and if we lived to be several hundred years old, we would finally work it all out. I am deeply grateful. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.” IfsYearsLongWantedBeautifulMotherImagineHonestStrangeHundredGratefulPhonesFortyWorking ItPhone CallsWooing Book:Braided Lives: A Novel Source: Braided Lives: A Novel
“I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.” I CanSometimesWholeMotherTalkingPhonesCarpetDoing Nothing Author:Beth Henley
“Sunday is the day I connect with Buenos Aires. I speak to or text my mother every day, but on Sunday I phone everyone.” MotherSpeakPhonesSundayBuenos Aires Author:Elena Roger