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Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what...

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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between...

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Adrienne RichOf Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego want...

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For so long I'd thought about myself as a girl who'd walked away from her mother's life that it woul...

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I used to joke that we had prepared ourselves for a time like this by living with Mother. The proble...

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Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me....

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You must go further than I did," Nedra said. "You know that.""Further?""With your life. You must bec...

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M. I’ve never really thought of M objectively before, as another person. She’s always been my mother...

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To join the company of women, to be adults, we go through a period of proudly boasting of having sur...

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Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not...

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Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not...

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To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, fal...

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Listen kid, it’s just you and me now, so let’s help each other out. Always be honest with me, and sh...

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Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall i...

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Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of...

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