“Men may have created the cage, but mothers clipped their daughters’ wings and shoved them inside.” ― Aimie K. Runyan, Promised to the Crown Advertisements
Tag: PARENTING
BRUNT OF MOTHER’S OBSESSIVE LOVE
“But I am not brave, and I have never been strong enough to carry the weight of my mother’s ambitions and expectations, to bear the
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PARENTING FALACIES
“My mother used to say that parenting classes should be mandatory before people were allowed to reproduce. She didn’t mean this to apply to herself,
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TEACH NOT PROTECT
“Shielding a child was impossible. Guidance was all that she could provide.” Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys
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ON BEING A PARENT
“A mother cannot give birth to a child and not lose a piece of herself. The child takes a part of the parent with them,
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FOREVER NO LIST REINSTATED
When my children were children, I created what I called a “forever no” list. If anything on this list was ever asked for again, the
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