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Quotes from Mothers and Other Monsters — Maureen F. McHugh

born 1959 United States

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Nothing prepares you for the death of a child. Nothing teaches you how to live with it.

Mothers and Other Monsters (2005)

That is what lives are, aren’t they? Attempts to fill our time with activity designed to prevent us from realizing that there is no meaning?

Mothers and Other Monsters (2005)

I suppose to him it looks as if I threw everything away, but how can he understand how our choices are taken from us? He doesn’t even understand freedom and what an illusion it really is.

Mothers and Other Monsters (2005)

We enter into all major relationships with no real clue of where we are going: marriage, birth, friendship. We carry maps we believe are true: our parents’ relationship, what it says in the baby books, the landscape of our own childhood. These maps are approximate at best, dangerously misleading at worst.

Mothers and Other Monsters (2005)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maureen F. McHugh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.