Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hermione Esmerelda was born late in the afternoon beneath a swaying, shading bamboo tree. She looked questioningly at her mother, who informed Hermione Esmerelda that it was late in the afternoon beneath a swaying, shading bamboo tree that grew on the borderline between China and Tibet. Mother also told Hermione that she had four large, flat feet, a short tail, a white body, black legs, black ears, and black circles about her eyes. In short, Hermione was (according to her mother) a perfect ailuropoda melanoleucos and at the very same time a Giant Panda...
...Mother also told Hermione Esmerelda that her father was a loud-mouthed lout from Szechuan Province, China. Mother, on the other hand, was a perfect lady from Tibet, whose nose was always cold and ears never drooped. Mother also had hopes for her daughter. And so from birth Hermione Esmerelda was always well behaved, well kempt, and never ate anything but the tenderest bamboo shoots. She looked askance upon Szechuan Pandas, especially her father, and ignored the reddish regular sized pandas or chased them up trees or called them, "Raccoons." When she grew up and weighed 200 pounds...
...putting money ahead of love. She plans to use her earnings to take three years off and get a Ph.D. in psychology. Trouble is that she cannot collect a penny of her winnings until she quits. At the moment she is broke, last week borrowed $500 from her mother to keep going...
...lost, and I had the impression that I gave her a certain comfort. She asked to see me again." Six months and many talks later she told him that she was a prostitute. "Then she reformed her life. She is married now, lives in Africa, and is a courageous mother...
...women are a 35-year-old mother and her 18-year-old daughter. Cesira is a widowed shopkeeper whose sole strength is her daughter's need of her. Rosetta's convent education has scarcely prepared the girl for a world in which the bombers seem almost to have crowded God out of the heavens. When the bombing of Rome appears imminent, the two women flee southeast to the mountain fastnesses where Cesira was born. The return of the native proves harsh...