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“Mothers are often absent in stories because if they were present, nothing would happen. Mothers stop children getting into trouble. Stories need trouble.”
— Someone on the Internet, misattributing the quote to Neil Gaiman
— Someone on the Internet, misattributing the quote to Neil Gaiman
“ In film after film, the mother is absent, villainous, or erased, leaving daughters to be shaped by men. It is a way of controlling women’s narratives by cutting them off at the root.”
— Susan Faludi, Backlash
— Susan Faludi, Backlash
“The absent or dead mother has been a staple of cultural mythology, not because she is irrelevant, but because she is too central — her presence would demand confrontation with the deepest and most unsettling aspects of dependency, origin, and desire.”
— Adrienne Rich
— Adrienne Rich