Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That did not stop the Oregon state police from embarking on a high-speed chase to overtake a school bus transporting a child whose mother had inadvertently packed grapes in her daughter's lunch...
...fashioned notion of singling out women rather than men for complete parental sacrifice. Another problem is that the system could put a woman on a slow track for a whole career, even though the critical child-rearing years constitute only one brief phase of her life. Says Jayne Day, mother of a six- year-old daughter and a partner in the Manhattan office of the accounting firm Peat Marwick: "How, at age 25, is anyone going to make a personal decision about what track to be on? Firms need to be more open and flexible...
...decade or so ago, The Woman Warrior and China Men. Tan's book is a wry group portrait of four elderly and feisty women who emigrated from China to the U.S., and their grown, very Americanized daughters. "A girl is like a young tree," says one of the stern mothers, who explains to her daughter that she lacks the necessary wood in her character. "You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you . . . But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak." The daughter does not ignore this old- country...
...mothers thinks, "When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes." If she had inside knowing, "she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear." One of the daughters, carefully fearful, remarks to a friend, "I don't know if it's explicitly stated in the law, but you can't ever tell a Chinese mother to shut up. You could be charged as an accessory to your own murder...
...Chinese (or Jewish or Presbyterian) mother broods when an adult offspring says, "I'm my own person!" Her response is, "How can she be her own person? When did I give her up?" The author writes with both inside and outside knowing, and her novel rings clearly, like a fine porcelain bowl...