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Mothers and daughters

The Mother of All Questions

I gave a talk on Virginia Woolf a few years ago. During the question-and-answer period that followed it, the subject that seemed to most interest a number of people was…

The Donor

by Emma Donoghue,

He’s been a central character in the story for as long as Chris and I have been telling it to the kids. “We had Emma’s egg but we didn’t have…

Her heart inform her tongue

by Alexandra Fuller,

Language lost and found

American Electra

by Susan Faludi,

Feminism's ritual matricide

Untitled

Art by Barbara Nessim,

Paralyzed

by Roxana Robinson,

Learning to live in polio's shadow

On spectrum

by Sallie Tisdale,

My daughter, her autism, our life

The estrangement

by Jamaica Kincaid,

Untitled

by Peter Turnley,

Untitled

by Peter Turnley,

Chicken 81

by Sarah L. Courteau,

Mothers and daughters

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The Mother of All Questions

The Donor

Her heart inform her tongue

American Electra

Untitled

Paralyzed

On spectrum

The estrangement

Untitled

Untitled

Chicken 81

June 2002

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