Word: mothering
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...mother of a certain generation, whisk her away for a matinee. She will sigh and speak of Cole Porter - his music punctuates many scenes, and indeed, there are moments when you fear Barnes is going to deliver a full number - and she will immediately forgive you for that unfortunate scarf you bought her for Mother...
...Chicago on the South Side, and literally a 10-minute drive away was the University of Chicago in all of its grandeur. And I never knew anything about that institution that was a few minutes away from me, and that was so telling, even to the point that my mother worked there. She worked there for four years as a secretary to the legal office. But I never set foot on campus. We came through, we picked her up, we left. It was sort of like another world that didn't belong to me. I didn't think about college...
...public life, who was Michelle Obama's "Michelle Obama"? Was there anyone? You know, I had a hard time connecting to people that I didn't know as a young kid. I mean, the people who really moved me were the people that I knew in my life: my mother, the teachers that...
...there are people like her, of course - and I've gotten to know her now over the years. So there are those grande dames, those amazing women who obviously stand out. But in terms of whose stories stay in my head, it's my mother's, my aunts', my neighbors', my teachers' from growing up on the South Side of Chicago...
...when you were a child. Were there people? Did you imagine in public life there were people like you then? Or do you see what you're doing now as sort of a new thing? No, I don't. I don't think it's new. I mean, my mother said this in an interview and I completely agree with her, and it's something that, you know, I want young people to remember, is that, my mom said in this Essence article, Michelle and Barack aren't new; there are thousands of Michelle and Barack Obamas all over this...