“No mother should lose her child.”
“The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother's love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress emotions.”
“I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head."A child should never have to choose.”
“A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.”
“A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.”
“Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.”