#mothers

You must go further than I did," Nedra said. "You know that." "Further?" "With your life. You must become free." She did not explain it; she could not. It was not a matter of living alone, though in her case this had been necessary. The freedom she meant was self-conquest. It was not a natural state. It was meant only for those who would risk everything for it, who were aware that without it life is only appetites until the teeth are gone. ↗

— James Salter

#mothers-and-daughters #risk #women #freedom

When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form. ↗

— Christine Northrup

#children #common-sense #conflict #feminism #health

My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder," which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman. ↗

— Ben Aaronovitch

#west-african #witches #respect

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#mothers #dating

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#did #except #get #hours #i

I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#anyone #anything #book #corrections #could

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#i think #lot #mothers #recorded #road

I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#also #arthur #behold #decided #fan

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#complex #cover #frank #i #i think

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#broke #got #i #mothers #never