A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Three Graves
Mother died today. Or perhaps it was yesterday, I don’t know. Albert Camus, L’Etranger
Come home. Please. Alan Bleasdale, Boys From the Blackstuff: Yosser’s Story, Yosser to Maureen, BBC 1982
She used to be our mummy. ibid. child to child
She didn’t love me. She didn’t love the kids. I know you want to talk to me about the kids. I want to keep the kids. I want to keep the kids. ibid.
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues – faith and hope. Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
She was of the stuff of which great men’s mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises. Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles – and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech – look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic. Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint
Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office 15th June 2015 10:40 p.m. Police have brought in Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a 19-year-old woman from Springfield, Missouri, for questioning regarding the death of her mother. Mommy Dead and Dearest, Sky Atlantic 2017
‘Things are not always as they appear.’ ibid. rozzer
‘She asked me to.’ ibid. boyfriend
‘I fucken slashed that fat pig and raped her sweet innocent daughter … Her scream was soooo fucken loud lol’. ibid. Facebook
‘The appearance of a long financial fraud scheme.’ ibid. rozzer
‘If I had to say one word about her it would be overprotective.’ ibid. Gypsy
‘In my opinion Munchausen by Proxy … is a form of child abuse.’ ibid. doctor
Almost all of Gypsy’s relationship with Nick was online role play. ibid.
Ten years. ibid.
‘I was born into a gypsy family. My mum was white, so was her husband. And I came out black. The story I was told was that my mum put me in a caravan and set light to it. I guess she didn’t want me around.’ Annie: Out of the Ashes, Annie, BBC 2017
It’s about understanding the culture, characters and events that led to a fire which nearly killed her. ibid.
‘What a waste of life to be sad and angry.’ ibid. Annie
In the 1980s there were an average of 2,000 caravan fires every year across the UK many of which were fatal. ibid.
Finding out her grandmother was in there with her changes everything. ibid.
What can I say? My mum was a cunt, God rest her soul. Essex Heist 2017 starring Georgia Annable & Richard Carter & Adam Collins & Helen Crevel & Steven Dolton & Dean Leon Finlan & Evadne Fisher & Ryan Flamson & Marc Hamill & Marcus Langford et al, director Steve Lawson
Then I got saddled with you. That was my downfall, darling. Secrets & Lies ***** 1996 starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste & Brenda Blethyn & Timothy Spall & Phyllis Logan & Claire Rushbrook & Elizabeth Berrington & Michele Austin & Lee Ross & Lesley Manville & Ron Cook et al, director Mike Leigh, mother to daughter
There’s nothing rational about grief. Maybe you’re crying for yourself. ibid. Hortense
I’ve got a Dutch cap floating around somewhere upstairs. You could have that. Run it under the tap. Bit of talcum powder. Where you going? ibid. mother to daughter
I was spending time with women dealing with mental illness brought on by having babies. For all its joys, new motherhood can be a time of extreme psychiatric difficulty. In homes and in specialised units I was with families and staff working to find a way back to recovery, exploring the wrenching challenges of caring for two people of the most vulnerable states in their lives. Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge, BBC 2019
That scared little boy’s mother is a once-popular mom influencer Ruby Franke … Her 12-year-old son escaped out of a window looking for food and water … How did it all come to this? True Crime Recaps: The Shocking Case of Ruby Franke, Youtube short 7.14, 2023
The house the boy escaped from belongs to Ruby Franke’s business partner, a life coach by the name of Jodi Hildenbrandt. When police checked the house they found more kids inside. ibid.
The neighbours called it Complete Insanity. ibid.