Madeline’s Reviews > The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters > Status Update

“I wonder what happens when a mother begins to feel she is losing her position, especially when she holds no dominance elsewhere in the world. Would she be willing to sacrifice the expansion of her daughter’s growth in service to her ego? To want to flatten the very being that your body helped bloom is contradictory […] But how can you water a new seed, when you yourself have gone dry?”

“Those old wounds can’t be resolved through what you give your children. She needed to tend the little girl in her, because only a confrontation can change the direction of the waters.”