“There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.” IfsLittlesWarLightPainRememberMotherGirlProcessHoursPerfectCitiesSilenceDarknessSittingOilPregnantLampsFarmingSpinningBarnsMidwifeYarnBirthingMaresCity Girl Author:Diet Eman
“I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.” IfsMotherSilenceCapableShockingSpeechless Author:Robyn
“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.” KnowsFeelsMeanMotherSilenceKnownAliveTerribleSorrowDo 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
“The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.” MovingMotherPrayerResultsSilenceElementsSilentObscureMouldDeepest Life Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.” IfsThinkingWorldDoeMatterMotherDealsSilenceNoisy Book:A Right to Be Merry Source: A Right to Be Merry
“The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and experience. Within this silence, a daughter's authentic voice can also fall silent. This is the silence of perfection. This silence of perfection prevents mothers from listening and learning from their daughters.” WayMotherFallVoiceSilenceListeningDaughterPerfectionSilentTensionPeculiarRight WayMother DaughterMother Daughter Relationship Author:Elizabeth Debold