Children like their mothers ...

Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that\'s how I felt. There\'s nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it\'s just the way they are.
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.
 Jamaica Kincaid

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I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There is something about this book that drives people mad with the autobiographical question.
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.
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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.
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