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What would you like to tell your daughter? What do you wish you could tell – or have told – your mother before it's too late? What do your friendships mean to you? Is there a particular friend who's brought you back from the brink?
So, please use this site to say whatever you need. You might want to share advice on how to deal with relationships; you might want to offer up a personal insight; you might simply want to tell us how much you love your mother or daughter or friend; and you might want to share words of wisdom for future generations of women.
My mother value western education so much that she encouraged and supported I and my siblings to be educated, despite the fact that she is a widow and never had western education herself.
In my third year in the primary school in Nigeria, my mother called me one evening and wanted me to teach her how to write her name, a five lettered word 'Adija' and I could not do it. What I did to show that I could not teach her that day was to weep profusely.
Each day, whenever I remember that scene, I still shed tears because that was the moment I could have given little portion of what my mother sent me to gain in large portion but I could not do it.
Posted on 21.05.08 by
Anonymous
my mum rose, we had perhaps not the easiest of relationships, but i realse now she was way way ahead of her time. fiercly independent, loyal, her own person at all costs. i dont actually remember how she taught me things and things for which i am eternally grateful. my independence, although it scares the hell out of most men, my total loyalty to friends and the capacity to somehow keep loving, just because if any of us stop loving life, then its no life at all!! for all of the above i thank her and hope she is up there being still herself at all costs!!
Posted on 07.05.08 by
101010baby
This book was wonderful, I cried loads of times and couldn't put it down. Having lost my Mum 5 years to cancer I related to the characters and although I'm in my 50's now it still doesn't make it any easier when you lose your Mum. I have step children and they are all grown up now and have left home so I also related to 'Mark'. Even though I'm not their 'proper' Mum I still have feelings for them and worry about them and love them like they were my own.
I would recommend anyone to read this wonderful book.
Linda
Posted on 07.05.08 by
Boxermum
22 years ago i found myself pregnant, alone and very scared. The child had not been conceived in a loving relationship, the father an uncaring man who forced himself upon me. Within a month i miscarried the child. This destroyed me because whatever my circumstances i wanted that child. I wanted to have that baby and be sure that it would always know that it was loved.
I convinced myself that had the child survived she would have been a girl and i even gave her a name, Laura! I thinl about her all the time and although time heals i will never get over it. You see several years later i discovered that i would never be able to have kids of my own. As a woman you don't expect to be told that. I have gone through all kinds of emotions and blame the person who damaged me as a child who made it impossible for me to be a mum. There is a piece of my heart which is empty and i know that although i smile and get on with my life i will never get over it!!
I am an auntie which i love and i am so grateful for the trust my sister has in me to look after these beautiful treasures. I consider myself to be their part time mum. In time i hope they know how loved they are and i hope that they can see their mother for the wonderful bright shining star she is. She loves them so much.
This book was so beautifully written i read it in 2 days. It made me think about the relationships that i have with people and the mothers and daughters that i know, all of them different and all of them unique all of them trusting and beautifully crafted. I am a surrogate, part time mum to young children and a couple of older children. I hope that they will always know how proud of them i am and how being part of their lives has helped me get through mine. To all of you, you are beautiful and brave, take chances, take risks and be free to love. Let your hearts be filled with joy and chase those dreams, be happy and healthy.
Mum i love you always
Posted on 02.05.08 by
joymaria
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