{"quotes":[{"text":"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["grandmother","mother"],"id":4864,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.","author":"Chris Pine","tags":["crazy","she","grandmother "],"id":27093,"author_id":"Chris+Pine"},{"text":"My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["act","earth","forgiveness","grandmother","last","love","tolerance"],"id":47246,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["earth","grandmother","grandmothers","wisdom"],"id":49223,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["death","family","grandmother","sorrow"],"id":51169,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.","author":"Anne Tyler","tags":["children","grandchildren","grandmother","grandparents"],"id":60676,"author_id":"Anne+Tyler"},{"text":"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.","author":"Marcel Proust","tags":["dead","grandmother","loneliness"],"id":77234,"author_id":"Marcel+Proust"},{"text":"But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer.","author":"Sherman Alexie","tags":["forgive","grandmother","murderer"],"id":81226,"author_id":"Sherman+Alexie"},{"text":"From her thighs, she gives you lifeAnd how you treat she who gives you lifeShows how much you value the life given to you by the Creator.And from seed to dustThere is ONE soul above all others --That you must always show patience, respect, and trustAnd this woman is your mother.And when your soul departs your bodyAnd your deeds are weighed against the featherThere is only one soul who can save yoursAnd this woman is your mother.And when the heart of the universeAsks her hair and mind,Whether you were gentle and kind to herHer heart will be forced to remain silentAnd her hair will speak freely as a separate entity,Very much like the seaweed in the sea --It will reveal all that it has heard and seen.This woman whose heart has seen yours,First before anybody else in the world,And whose womb had opened the doorFor your eyes to experience light and more --Is your very own MOTHER.So, no matter whether your mother has been cruel,Manipulative, abusive, mentally sick, or simply childishHow you treat her is the ultimate test.If she misguides you, forgive her and show her the right wayWith simple wisdom, gentleness, and kindness.And always remember,That the queen in the Creator's kingdom,Who sits on the throne of all existence,Is exactly the same as in yours.And her name is,THE DIVINE MOTHER.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["abusive","beauty","birth","cherish","childish","children","creation","divine","divine-mother","dust","eulogy","eulogy-mother","existence","feather","female","feminism","fertility","gentle","goddess","grandmother","hair","heart","hearts","kindness","kingdom","life","loss-of-mother","matriarch","mind","mom","mommy","mother","mother-earth","mother-poem","mother-poetry","motherhood","mothering","mothers","mothers-and-daughters","mothers-love","mothers-poem","name","parents","poem","poetry","pregnancy","queen","royalty","seaweed","seed","silent","sisters","soul","suzy-kassem","thighs","treasure","treatment","universe","value","woman","woman-power","woman-rights","womanhood","women"],"id":81503,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.","author":"Fredrik Backman","tags":["adventure","dragon","fairy-tale","grand-adventure","grandmother","knight"],"id":88495,"author_id":"Fredrik+Backman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}