Mother Country Quotes

“And then: What do I truly want? Well, ideally, I'd like to fix my brain.”
― Etaf Rum, Mother Country

“But most of all, I wanted to unlearn all the shame. I wanted to learn how to love and honor myself so I could know how to love and honor my children.”
― Etaf Rum, Mother Country

“Feeling the need to stay busy is a distraction from what you’d be forced to feel and acknowledge if you slowed down.”
― Etaf Rum, Mother Country

“If I managed as a young mother in America, a foreign country, then you should too.”
― Etaf Rum, Mother Country

“I couldn't live within your restraints anymore. I wanted to break out of the chains and fly.”
― Etaf Rum, Mother Country

“What Christopher Ryan said in Civilized to Death: "When you're going in the wrong direction, progress is the last thing you need.”
― Etaf Rum, Mother Country

“My plan was to be the best mother I could be. That meant being the opposite of you. I was going to be present and tender and not sad all the time. I was going to set a good example of what it meant to be a woman. Less powerless, more hope. More fuck off. The problem was, I didn’t know how.”
― Etaf Rum, Mother Country