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" It’s a dangerous thing, to divide yourself, to break off bits of yourself until there’s no solid core. We are, after all, just the sum of our total experiences, each one lying beneath us like a brick in the foundation of a house. To be selective, to block out portions, is to destabilize the very ground on which you stand. "
― , Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World
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" The world is full of instructions and advice on how to mother, in bookstores, in academia, on the playgrounds, in the media. Mothers are always examining how they treat their children, but aside from the occasional “Don’t talk to your mother that way,” or “You shouldn’t have listened to your mother,” there’s not much guidance out there for daughters. "
― , Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World
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" These are the kinds of regrets all women have, mistakes and missteps, paths not chosen, opportunities gone. Youth gone. Forever. And until I honestly acknowledge how this regret feels, acknowledge that I’m not okay with how some of my life went, it’s like having a fake past, and a fake present, which is surely a prescription for a fake future. "
― , Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World
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" I could see where I’d mistaken drama and conflict for life, which meant years of living reactively instead of generatively, a life I let be determined by circumstances and the choices of others. We like to think life happens to us, but pretty much everything in your life is there because you wanted it, even if unconsciously. Results, I have learned, don’t lie. "
― , Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World
Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World