Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
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... sense of being loved , however dependently , the sense too that I'm not an utterly unnatural and shrewish mother - much though I am ! May 1965 To suffer with and for and against a child — maternal- ly , egotistically , neurotically ...
... sense of being loved , however dependently , the sense too that I'm not an utterly unnatural and shrewish mother - much though I am ! May 1965 To suffer with and for and against a child — maternal- ly , egotistically , neurotically ...
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... sense of insufficiency to the moment and to eternity ... Paralyzed by the sense that there exists a mesh of relations , between e.g. my rejection and anger at [ my eldest child ] , my sensual life , pacifism , sex ( I mean in its ...
... sense of insufficiency to the moment and to eternity ... Paralyzed by the sense that there exists a mesh of relations , between e.g. my rejection and anger at [ my eldest child ] , my sensual life , pacifism , sex ( I mean in its ...
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... sense of herself it gave a woman to be in the presence of such images . If they did nothing else for her , they must have validated her spiritually ( as our contem- porary images do not ) , giving her back aspects of herself neither ...
... sense of herself it gave a woman to be in the presence of such images . If they did nothing else for her , they must have validated her spiritually ( as our contem- porary images do not ) , giving her back aspects of herself neither ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
Copyright | |
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