Called Mother

Famous quotes containing the words called and/or mother:

    “So vulnerable.
    She is already trampled, that one,
    having traveled so far from the heart.
    She weighs so little.
    She is so light and vulnerable.
    She is the dead bee called love.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.”
    —James Fenton (b. 1949)