Word: womanities
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...think she loved you? I think that my mother was not a maternal woman. She shouldn't have had children. Has it ever occurred to you that until the happy advent of birth control there were women with no maternal instinct whatsoever who would have up to ten children because that's what women did? What a nightmare...
What about your mother? It took me much longer to realize that my mother was badly damaged too. She was this immensely unused woman. She put all of her energy into my brother and myself, which was very bad for us and very...
...that her nature? No. She had a bad breakdown when she found that she was stuck on the farm [in Rhodesia]. She turned into this self-pitying woman who started to live through her children. All my friends' mothers were appalling women. They had nothing in their lives - of course, husbands are just something you look after...
Were you worried that you would become a woman who lives through her children? No, I didn't think that I was likely to. You know, if you're trying to write you don't have much energy left over to be obsessed with your children...
...annoying, and emerges as an acceptable young hero. The film gets a big boost from Briem, a young Icelandic actress who is both angel-cool and sorceress-hot. (She's for the target kids' older brothers.) Her role is a rare one for this sort of film: a woman as resourceful as the males, but with no agenda to humiliate them...