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Mother – Fucking: The Saga of One Fucked Mother
BOOK ONE: I Think What I Will. BOOK TWO: A Mama's Long View Redemption BOOK THREE: The Opera: We Were Mothers Once, and Young
"Comes now" ... Mother's Day 2008, followed by the year's actual Summer Solstice and, voila as well, ... the first -- Chapter Twenty - Six -- of Mother - Fucking's Book Three, "The Opera: We Were Mothers Once, And Young."
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“Even if I am a Minority of One, the Truth is still the Truth.”--- Mohandas K. Gandhi
A Couple of Definitions
“Whiskey and Truth should both be served straight up, Doctor.” --- Watkins, the photographer, to Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
How, How in the World Did We Get Here From There?
“… a progression of outrages.” --- Bob Edwards, Host, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, 14 September 2000, in referencing events in Europe in the 1930s leading up to … that Holocaust.
Holocausts
“If you were not hysterical, Legion, then, … then is when I would be worried about you.” --- Margaret Stanley, lifelong Quaker, on the telephone, while preparing for her nursing quest to China
No Witnesses, But Hey, Still No Contact
“When they come, they’ll come at what ya’ love.” --- Al Pacino in the role of Michael Corleone, Godfather III, 1990
Friends
“My friends are my estate.” --- Emily Dickinson, on wealth.
Ancestors in Training
“… woman was no more than a machine to make babies for him. ‘Let them bear children TILL THEY DIE OF IT,’ Martin Luther advised. That is what they are for.’ ” --- Dr. Rosalind Miles, “The Sins of the Mothers,” in her The Women’s History of the World, p 102.
Foreplay
" … and nothing explained the fact that
the men all liked the conversation and participated happily. They talked
in particular about how much they would like to fuck her in the ass."
“It’s just a man on a horse, Baby Girl. Nothing more. Just a man on a horse.” ---
Anne Shropshire in the film role of ‘Doodlebug’ Bichon’s Great – Aunt
Rae, “Something to Talk About,” 1995
"You know, Michael,
now that you're so respectable, I think you're more dangerous than you
ever were."
--- --- Song title and recurring lyrics by John Lennon, 1972
Finishing School for Fathers
“The petty despot of the man – made home is hindered in his humanness by too much manness.” --- Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Chapter Two, “The Man – Made Family,” of her 1911 work, Our Androcentric Culture, or The Man – Made World
Husbandry and Homeland Security
“ … all the time fresh air, sunshine and good water.” --- Flying Hawk, the South Dakota plains, 1852 – 1931 CE
And Just a Few More of Those Flat – Out … Betrayals of Trust
“Rule Number One: Noooooo blasphemy!” --- Warden Norton to Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, inmates, Shawshank Prison, Maine
Patience Beyond Reason
“And now I’m glad I didn’t
know the way it all would end, the way it all would go.”
Escape from Accountability
“ … they understood our men as we did not!” and “Today most of our men are better husbands and fathers than ever before.” --- bill wilson on pages 105 and 108 in chapter eight’s “to wives” of the big book regarding an alcoholic’s other women, mr. wilson presenting that chapter as if his wife, Ms. Lois Wilson, had actually scripted it – all the while himself, during and after ending alcohol consumption, having countless sexual liaisons
The Company One's Mind Keeps
"That is sand upon bedrock,
and the bedrock is this: that there are still many, many men who feel,
deep inside, that women as a group are just something -- not someone --
something to be used and humiliated. They grope on the subway; they beat
up at home. They rape and sodomize, male against female, the world's
oldest bias crime." --- Anna Quindlen, writing The Last Word for the 24 June 2000 Newsweek issue
She and I Aren't Really Married
"This is the relationship we
should all aspire to. The hierarchy which has subordinated men, you will
be taught, established matriarchy as the way in which God can be
correctly related to and spoken about." --- Dr. Anne Primavesi, From Apocalypse to Genesis: Ecology, Feminism and Christianity, 1991, Chapter Seven, p 139
Too Bad It's Really a Rolodex Life and Not Exactly the Coveted Rolex Life
"Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres."
--- dictó from the
Latin
The Beginnings of the Bureau of Loss
"We still discover the church, the state, the world, all … regarding the exercise of her own judgment even upon the questions most closely related to herself as … woman's greatest sin."
--- Matilda Joslyn (Gage) on
page 310 in Chapter Six, "Wives", of her 1893 work, Woman, Church and
State
Because He Can
"We have to gut the bitch in
the belly.
--- Mr. Makerowitz acted by Douglas Urbanski and hissed about the opponent, a live DEhuman, in The Contender, 2000
Mawwiage: Thy Scientific Name, Thy Scorched - Earth Plague is Misogyny
"Women have very little idea of how much … men hate them."
There Goes The Love of My Life. Not.
"There goes my sex object.
There goes my sex object.
"Many Men of Conscience"
"PREDICTION: Many men of conscience will ally themselves publicly with a woman of feminist credentials. They may be living together or apart - it doesn't matter; what matters is their public alliance. She will provide him with credentials of his own: a plastic - laminated wallet card that says 'I have been approved by a feminist woman' and it will have on it her good name. He will flash the card when it suits him. He will keep it in his pocket when he buys pornography. When he visits her home, he will leave a mess."
"An Opera in Three Acts - But with Five
Parts
"My life has been stolen from me. I am living a life I have no wish to live. How did this happen?"
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