You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's … - Josephine Humphreys

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The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.

Josephine Humphreys

You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be the major force in their whole lives. You need to do the job adequately and as best you can, and then provide them with independence from you. You have to give them enough so that they won't need you anymore.

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Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.

Book, Eye, Grows, Heart, Wild

sharing is the secret of civilization.

Civilization, Secret, Sharing

How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time.

Memories, Moving, Reading, Shocking, Simply, Time

I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

Butterfly, Captivating, Children, Justice, Totally, Transformed

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

Against, Mind, Moving, Sicko, Speed, Suicide