“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.”
― Pigs in Heaven
― Pigs in Heaven
“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Supermom wasn't a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless in so many other ways.”
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“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
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