“Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother things was merely cute may have been lethal.” MothersEntertainingConditioningMothers And DaughtersMotheringSolicitousWell Behaved Women Book:Bluebeard's Egg Source: Bluebeard's Egg