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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