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  1. William Shakespeare _ The Tempest

    Good wombs have borne bad sons."-- {Miranda, I:2}
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  2. Salman Rushdie _ Midnight's Children

    And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the house have to go into the cornfield with the rickshaw boy to joke about whores and compare the length of their members and whisper furtively about dreams of being film directors {Hanif's dream, which horrifies his dream-invading mother, who believes the cinema to be an extension of the brothel business}, where life has been transmuted into grotesquery by the irruption into it of history, eventually in the murkiness of the underworld he cannot help himself, he finds his eyes straying upwards, up along delicate sandals and baggy pajamas and past loose kurta and above the dupatta, the cloth of modesty, until eyes meet eyes, and then
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  3. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    ...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is the right amount, what is too much, and the kind that makes you want more of what is bad for you. A mother helps her baby flex her first feelings of pleasure. She teaches her when to later exercise restraint, or to take squealing joy in recognizing the fluttering leaves of the gingko tree, to sense a quieter but more profound satisfaction in chancing upon an everlasting pine. A mother enables you to realize that there are different levels of beauty and therein lie the sources of pleasure, some of which are popular and ordinary, and thus of brief value, and others of which are difficult and rare, and hence worth pursuing.
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  4. Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
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  5. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.
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  6. Vladimir Nabokov _ Lolita

    My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident {picnic, lightning} when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style {I am writing under observation}, the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.
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  7. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Invention of Wings

    You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.
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  8. Kelley Armstrong _ Birthright

    Some women just aren't cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.
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  9. Melody Carlson _ Dark Blue: Color Me Lonely

    I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.
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  10. Toni Morrison _ Beloved

    The best thing she was, was her children.
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  11. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.
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  12. Jodi Picoult _ Handle with Care

    Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.
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