“Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.” KindPlayCharacterWantedMotherCapableTragicFireflyLarger Than Life Author:Leslie Easterbrook
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.” ChildrenHelpingMotherGrowsSidesMomIndependentParentingMotherhoodIntenseTragicBeing A MomBeing A MotherParadoxicalMotheringMother LoveMother's LoveMother And ChildMother ProverbsMother ChildLove For My MotherIntense LoveMother CareMom And ChildLove MomMother Son RelationshipMotherhood And LoveLove Being A Mom Author:Erich Fromm
“I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose a child cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.” KnowsYearsChildrenMotherLostLosesCompassionKnow HowFrontsTragicLost Child Author:Kim Basinger
“What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.” IfsWritingMeanDoeMadeSometimesMomentsUsedMotherGirlWhiteLaughingAliveWifeCryTearsToughDecidedNuclearTragicScratchesMessyAntigoneWriting PoemsNuclear Families Author:Juliana Spahr