Michael Chabon Quotes

The Daily Work You Put Into Rearing Your Children Is A Kind Of Intimacy, Tedious And Invisible As Mothering Itself. There Is Another Kind Of Intimacy In The Conversations You May Have With Your Children As They Grow Older, In Which You Confess To Failings, Reveal Anxieties, Share Your Bouts Of Creative Struggle, Regret, Frustration. There Is Intimacy In Your Quarrels, Your Negotiations And Running Jokes. But Above All, There Is Intimacy In Your Contact With Their Bodies, With Their Shit And Piss, Sweat And Vomit, With Their Stubbled Kneecaps And Dimpled Knuckles, With The Rips In Their Underpants As You Fold Them, With Their Hair Against Your Lips As You Kiss The Tops Of Their Heads, With The Bones Of Their Shoulders And With The Horror Of Their Breath In The Morning As They Pursue The Ancient Art Of Forgetting To Brush. Lucky Me That I Should Be Permitted The Luxury Of Choosing To Find The Intimacy Inherent In This Work That Is Thrust Upon So Many Women. Lucky Me.

Related Authors

• Abdul-Qadir Gilani
• Carol Shea-Porter
• Fisher Amelie
• Francine Shapiro
• Gregg Bell
• James Bryce
• Julia Press Simmons
• McMilan Summaries
• Sarah Rafferty
• Swoosie Kurtz
• Tatanka
• Tovah P. Klein

Related Topics

• Quotes About Honorable Man

  A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. — Henry Ward Beecher

• Quotes About Talking Parrots

  The problem with this game of special characteristics is that non-humans can never win. When we determine that parrots have the conceptual ability to understand and manipulate single-digit numbers, we — Gary L. Francione

• African Tribal Quotes

  The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating. — Li Keqiang

• I Hate You To The Moon And Back Quotes

  In other languages, you are beautiful- mort, muerto- I wish I spoke moon, I wish the bottom of the ocean were sitting in that chair playing cards and noticing how — Bob Hicok

• Passion And Profession Quotes

  Be true to what naturally interests you - and be brave enough to turn an obsession into a profession. — Shelly Branch