The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own parents couldn't do... →
Ayelet Waldman
Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit... →
You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to... →
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were... →
Wale
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back... →
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves... →
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother... →