Jamaica Kincaid Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

• Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Jamaica Kincaid (1997). “Annie John: A Novel”, p.102, Macmillan

• Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mother, Wall, Eye

• I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There is something about this book that drives people mad with the autobiographical question.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mother, Book, People

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

• It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  "'Our Sassy Black Friend' Jamaica Kincaid". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2013.

• What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mother, Brother, Distinguished

  "Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. September/October 1997.

• At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mother, Reading, Eden

• I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mother, Echoes, Feels

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

• The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mother, Shadow, Tunes

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “At the Bottom of the River”, p.54, Macmillan

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