Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for their families and their husbands and their childre...
But now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son's happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks throug...
(n.) The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
Motherhood was a twenty-four-hour-a-day, all-encompassing job. It was the hardest job I ever had. Everything that happened to you [her child] happened to me. I had once heard children described in a n...
Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered...
None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agata states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or a moment alone or to take the washing in or to open a cur...
In the space of his years, my body had taken its full shape and my heart had grown in wisdom, for I understood what it was to be a mother.
No children were harmed or neglected during the writing of this book.
It's come at last, she thought, the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.