Sharon Olds Quotes About Daughters

Quotes about: Daughters

• The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

  Sharon Olds

  Birthday, Mom, Daughter

• The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  "Salon" Interview with Dwight Garner, www.english.illinois.edu.

• The older I get, the more I feel.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Natural Talent, Getting Older

  "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

• Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Children, Memories

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