Word: mother
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...Your book is called Not Becoming My Mother. Are there things you've done in life that you want your son to avoid...
...kind of apples and oranges. What I learned from going through my mother's notes and letters is how important it is to let your kid be whoever they're going to be. And my son turned out to be the person I would have always wanted him to be. Lucky...
...first book, I tried very hard to not deal with any of my mother's emotional problems because I knew that they would embarrass her. She wasn't alive anymore, but still she was there in my head. But my editor said that I had to. I thought, "Well, hey, it's a memoir. All right. I'll confess she was bipolar." I felt bad about it. But you have to tell the truth and let the chips fall where they're going or not be a writer...
Absolutely. It has changed, but not nearly enough. The fact is that if you're a mother today, you feel guilty the whole time your kid is growing up. We still have not gotten the debate to the place where two people are parenting. It's just accepted that of course it's going to be the woman who's the primary parent. It's the woman who's going to sublimate her desire for a job. The fact that we're still debating that drives me crazy...
...your share at the PTA. Now as we're going into this recession, it's all going to come back. As jobs become scarcer, women are going to bear the brunt of it. I do think that one of the great lessons that I learned from my mother was not just the necessity of working, but that being able to work is a privilege for all of us. It's where we get our sense of self worth...