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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

At the same time that Donald Trump was facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent to minority families, Hillary Clinton risked her own safety to seek out the truth, to comfort the afflicted, and to make a home for justice where there was none. It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary.

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.