We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.

A mother understands what a child does not say.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.