Margaret Atwood quote: No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the ...

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.

~ Margaret Atwood ~

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