"Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys……" — Alexander McCall Smith

"Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers; either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence."

— Alexander McCall Smith

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