Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrote every night. I kept notebooks and I'd write a poem every night and draw a picture at the end from when I was nine. For years and years and years. And it was lot of bad poetry when I was a teenager, of course. Thank God my mother threw it all away she's very neat person. When I left Ireland I was 17--I led a sort of wild existence--I traveled to all these different places. I always say I've cleaned bathrooms in every European capital in the world. I lived in Amsterdam, London, Paris...
...teenage mother, desperate for a handhold in the long climb through a childhood in the ghetto names her child Imani or "Faith." Though the simple significance of the appellation may initially seem shallow and even trite, it's this almost innocent, simple connection that gives Imani All Mine its poignancy. The account of child mothering child becomes a story of epic determination which grabs readers and takes them on a ride through a world about which they know little, if anything...
...struggle to integrate her life as a mother with her life as a motivated, bright students is complicated by the emotional issues attached to the rape which she has been a victim and her heart wrenchingly adolescent yearning for the life of the girls she sees in Seventeen. Her survival in spite of such daunting obstacles becomes for us a shining example of the triumph of the human spirit...
Meryl Streep, One True Thing. Poor Meryl. She's won so many times that when she does her best stuff, nobody cares. She electrified One True Thing as a mother with cancer, and she changes the movie from TV domestic drama to nuanced character study. Maybe next year (13 nominations and counting...
...first person to register her comment was, of course, my mom. I'm going to stereotype my family right now and say that South Asian parents--and particularly mothers--are health fanatics. After waiting four days to call my mother (I knew she was going to flip out) I was totally expecting the barrage of questions. Our frantic conversation went like this...