"Even when I was a grown woman, he……" — Maureen Howard
"Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and lived as far as I could spiritually from Bridgeport, he reduced me in a matter of hours to a wriggling child, pleading to go free."
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Maureen Howard
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14 Quotes by Maureen Howard
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I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together,…
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I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my…
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Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of…
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There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.
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The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father…
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When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender…
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If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a…
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To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It…
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Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?
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None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.
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