Over the course of my twenty-one years of mothering, I’ve been a sad mother a mad mother a decent mother a mediocre mother a worthy and respectable mother and a bad mother. *** I’ve been devoted and irresponsible. I’ve been present and preoccupied. I’ve been vacant, and lacking, and exemplary.
Bad Mothers
Over the course of my twenty-one years of mothering, I’ve been a sad mother a mad mother a decent mother a mediocre mother a worthy and respectable mother and a bad mother. *** I’ve been devoted and irresponsible. I’ve been present and preoccupied. I’ve been vacant, and lacking, and exemplary.