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| | Reading Group Guide | THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO HER MOTHER by Kim Chernin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The problems arise when the mother is unaware of needing the daughter to be her mother and wants her to have no other role, a situation that is likely to turn the little girl into a premature little mother, sacrificing her own needs for nurturing and dependence in order to meet those of her mother. |
 | | Well, there was, of course, a time, a prolonged period from the moment of birth, when the mother and food were simply indistinguishable a time when one's most consistent relationship to the mother involved eating, often from her breast or against her breast or in her arms. |
 | | Oddly enough, although the "giving birth" experience happens again and again, it is frequently accompanied by a sense of newness, as if one were seeing the mother as a woman "for the first time," even though one remembers distinctly having seen her like this before. |
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