“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.” PeopleWorldKindHas BeensMotherImaginationHellAmountExerciseWeightAcceptedShouldersGenerousLenient Author:Maya Angelou
“It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.” WorldWarHandsRunningAgeMotherFightingCoursesPayPovertyEuropeRageShouldersWar Of The WorldsBeastWorld War IBloodyPay The PriceSlough Author:Kate Richards O'Hare