Chris ordered Greek Chicken, no butter no salt, and I decided to splurge on a hamburger. To which my mama took the opportunity to point out that I could eat whatever I wanted and not get fat. She never believed me when I said I watched what I ate and exercised on the regular.
“Her daddy was the same way. Straight up and down. Course she got the tits that he ain’t have.
Mots clés humor body-image mothers-and-daughters
I got almost eighteen years with you. The best eighteen years of my life.
Kristen SimmonsMots clés mothers-and-daughters mothers-love
Am I alone in this mother-food connection or does being with your mom trigger the sudden and voracious need for large amounts of mac
April PaineMots clés food mothers family-relationships parents-and-children mothers-and-daughters cookie mothers-and-sons food-quotes
These stories had intrigued her with their strange mix of violence and love, so unlike the distant, passionless affection of her own mother.
She thought, she hoped, that the handkerchief was something fantastic, like a piece of a tale, but real, and just for her, a symbol of the real, hidden love of her mother.
Mots clés love mothers-and-daughters
Mothers! They promise you they'll never get married again, and next thing you know you're a bridesmaid.
Mindy SchanbackMots clés humor marriage angst mothers-and-daughters
The Dieter's Daughter
Mom's got this taco guy's poem
taped to the fridge, some ode to celery,
which she is always eating.
The celery, I mean, not the poem
which talks about green angels
and fragile corsets. I don't get it,
but Mom says by the time she reads it
she forgets she's hungry. One stalk
for breakfast, along with half a grapefruit,
or a glass of aloe vera juice,
you know that stuff that comes from cactus,
and one stalk for lunch
with some protein drink
that tastes like dried placenta,
did you know that they put cow placenta
in make-up, face cream, stuff like that?
Yuck. Well, Mom says it's never too early
to wish you looked different,
which means I got to eat that crap too.
Mom says: your body is a temple,
not the place all good twinkies go to.
Mom says: that boys remember
girls that're slender.
Mom says that underneath all this fat
there's a whole new me,
one I'd really like if only I gave myself
the chance. Mom says: you are
what you eat, which is why she eats celery,
because she wants to be thin,
not green or stringy, of course--
am I talking too fast?--
but thin as paper
like the hearts we cut out
and send to ourselves,
don't tell anyone,
like the hearts of gold
melons we eat
down
to the bitter rind.
Mots clés poetry women dieting patriarchy mothers-and-daughters
Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.
Raquel CepedaMots clés darkness eyes stress family-relationships mothers-and-daughters mami rocio
Listen kid, it’s just you and me now, so let’s help each other out. Always be honest with me, and show me how to be the mother and father I never had. I’ll make a mess of things sometimes, and I’m sorry in advance, but I’ll try. My word is bond.
Raquel CepedaMots clés motherhood mother mothers-and-daughters single-parenthood young-mothers
A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
Raquel CepedaMots clés motherhood mother mothers-and-daughters birth-mother mother-defined mothers-and-daughter what-is-a-mother
You must go further than I did," Nedra said. "You know that."
"Further?"
"With your life. You must become free."
She did not explain it; she could not. It was not a matter of living alone, though in her case this had been necessary. The freedom she meant was self-conquest. It was not a natural state. It was meant only for those who would risk everything for it, who were aware that without it life is only appetites until the teeth are gone.
Mots clés women freedom risk mothers-and-daughters
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