Martha Hodes > Quotes

“invoking the New York Mets pitcher hero from the 1969 World Series as a model water guzzler (“Jerry Koosman drinks water and you do too!”).”
― Martha Hodes, My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering

“What news!” Catherine wrote back. “Unbelievable, fantastic and slightly shocking. I’m so excited.” (Catherine soon wrote a letter to our grandmother, asking why our mother was having another baby, given that she hadn’t stayed with her first two children, to which our grandmother wrote back, “What a smart girl you are.”)”
― Martha Hodes, My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering

“Soaking up the onstage elation, my mother kept touring with the Graham Company. She would go away, come home, and go away again. “I think my children are the most wonderful, the best looking, the smartest, and the most awe-inspiring children in the world,” she would recall. “Yet it is as though they are not connected to me. They come to see the show at a matinee wearing lovely clothes that I swear I have never seen before. They meet the cast, charm everyone and are whisked home to do whatever it is they do there. I think about taking them to dinner between shows, but somehow never get around to asking if this is all right. All right with whom? I am afraid to answer my own questions.”
― Martha Hodes, My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering

“transgressions one”
― Martha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln

“More inventively, the Raab children created snacks out of watermelon seeds, using the packets of salt from Red Cross meals and baking the seeds on the airplane’s sunny wing.”
― Martha Hodes, My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering