I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.
She serves me a piece of it a few minutesout of the oven. A little steam risesfrom the slits on top. Sugar and spice -cinnamon - burned into the crust.But she's wearing these dark glassesin the kitche...
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But can I say, now that she is dead, long dead that I only half believed in her. I wanted, I needed her to revolt. I know, revolutions take vast energy like volcanic eruptions. I know. And the sick mu...
Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her--and you. ... And like him, perhaps I send you back, knowing---as he knew of me--that he will protect you with his li...
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Palmira. She’s like an apparition floating unknowingly into her future,' I said. 'Here for too brief a time.
If thy daughter marry well thou hast found a son if not thou hast lost a daughter.
We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody's.
What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.
I have to be a teacher to my daughters.
No, I`m putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
Do not forget to tell your daughters God made them beautiful.
This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.
My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It...