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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was close with my mom and had to break with her in order to find myself and come back. Since that was my experience, that's often what happens in my books.

As a mother, I'm constantly feeling like a failure.

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.

I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I'm enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.