writer-mother notes (somewhat depressing)

file under: note-takings from Mother Reader (an anthology)::"What does it mean to love, for a woman? The same thing as to write. . .WORD/FLESH. From one to the other, eternally, fragmented visions, metaphors of the invisible." "Successful creation, like all creative living, depends on the trust and self confidence first developed in the child's earliest realationship to (his) mother."

"Genuine feminine innovation will not be possible until we have elucidated motherhood, feminine creation, and the relationship between them."

and

"Guilt, desperation, splitting of the self, alienated role playing, resignation to lower accomplishment, renunciation of the writing self--these are some of the realities, some of the possible choices that writing mothers live with."