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My mother/my self pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
MOTHER LOVE<br > I have always lied to my mother. And she to me. How young was<br > I when I learned her language, to call things by other names? Five,<br > four--younger? Her denial of whatever she could not tell me, that<br > her mother could not tell her, and about which society enjoined<br > us both to keep silent, distorts our relationship still.<br > Sometimes I try to imagine a little scene that could have helped<br > us both. In her kind, warm, shy, and self-deprecating way, mother<br > calls me into the bedroom where she sleeps alone. She is no more<br > than twenty-five. I am perhaps six. Putting her hands (which her<br > father told her always to keep hidden because they were "large<br >i and unattractive") on my shoulders, she looks me right through<br >!<br >i my steel-rimmed spectacles: "Nancy, you know I m not really<br > good at this mothering business," she says. "You re a lovely child,<br > the fault is not with you. But motherhood doesn t come easily to<br > me. So when I don t seem like other people s mothers, try to<br > understand that it isn t because I don t love you. I do. But I m<br > confused myself. There are some things I know about. 1 11 teach<br > them to you. The other stuff--sex and all that--well, I just can t<br > discuss them with you because I m not sure where they fit into<br > my own life. We ll try to find other people, other women who can<br >
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My mother/my self pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024