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“I abolished all language on the day of my father’s funeral. I did it to honor my father and outrage my mother, who slapped me when I refused to answer her. Let her, I thought. She still couldn’t make me cry.”
― Alice Hoffman, Everything My Mother Taught Me

“Did you want something?” she would ask. Yes, I felt like saying. A mother.”
― Alice Hoffman, Everything My Mother Taught Me

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Mom says it's because she has PMS.
Do you even know what that means?
"I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song