Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.
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The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.
Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Becoming a mother doesn't always change every aspect of your personality.
A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.
Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.
All mothers go through the exact same things.
There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.
There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.
I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.