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Author McFarland, Barbara.

Title My mother was right : how today's women reconcile with their mothers / Barbara McFarland, Virginia Watson-Rouslin
Edition First edition
Published San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [1997]
©1997

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Description xxv, 251 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Mothers and Daughters / Pat Mora -- 1. The Journey -- 2. The Way They Were -- 3. Always Have Something to Fall Back On -- 4. Stand On Your Own Two Feet -- 5. Just Wait Until You Have Children of Your Own -- 6. In God, All Things Are Possible -- 7. Manners Don't Cost Money -- 8. An Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree -- 9. My Son Is My Son 'Til He Gets Him a Wife, But My Daughter's My Daughter All Her Life -- 10. You'll Never Miss the Water 'Til the Well Runs Dry, and You'll Never Miss Your Mother 'Til She's Gone -- 11. Coming Home -- App. B. What Our Mothers Told Us: A Cliche for Every Occasion
Summary The women featured in the book speak with genuine appreciation about the lessons of self-reliance, education, spirituality, and thoughtfulness that were passed down from their mothers. Ironically, the most meaningful guidance they got from their moms is often the very advice they found so irritating when they were younger. The book also reveals the conflict women feel about the similarities they see between their mothers and themselves and the shock of realizing that the roles have been reversed in their relationships with their own daughters
My Mother Was Right focuses on the most fundamental and complicated connection of all, the mother-daughter relationship, to show that it is only after we learn to value, accept, and forgive our mothers that we are able to come to terms with ourselves. Written in the words of women from all walks of life - including a Pulitzer Prize winning author, an Episcopal priest, a federal judge, and a vice-president of General Motors - My Mother Was Right offers two very different views of womanhood - Good Housekeeping magazine vs. Ms. magazine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index
Subject Mothers and daughters.
Author Watson-Rouslin, Virginia, 1946-
LC no. 97024510
ISBN 0787908754 (alk. paper)