It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
I am glad that I do not have any children.
If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother