 | Linda Hogan - 1995 - 196 pages
...needs always sacrificed for theirs, her life dictated by theirs. As Rich describes it, my anger \vould rise; I would feel the futility of any attempt to...quarter-hour of selfishness, of peace, of detachment from my children.2 Coupled with this assumption that motherhood is the most natural and desirable state for... | |
 | Moyra Davey - 2001 - 380 pages
...wants at such a moment as fraudulent, as an attempt moreover to defraud me of living even for fifteen minutes as myself. My anger would rise; I would feel...selfishness, of peace, of detachment from my children. A few minutes! But it was as if an invisible thread would pull taut between us and break, to the child's... | |
 | Karen Lane Rood - 2001 - 624 pages
...wants at such a moment as fraudulent, as an attempt moreover to defraud me of living even for fifteen minutes as myself. My anger would rise; I would feel...selfishness, of peace, of detachment from my children. A few minutes! But it was as if an invisible thread would pull taut between us and break, to the child's... | |
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I would feel his wants at such a moment as fraudulent, as an attempt moreover to defraud me of living even for fifteen minutes as myself. My anger would rise; I would feel the futility of any attempt to salvage myself, and also the inequality between... 