![]() ![]() I was reading a New Yorker story that made me think of my mother and all alone in the seat I whispered to her “I know, Mother, I know.” (Found a pen!) And I thought of you - someday flying somewhere all alone and me dead perhaps and you wishing to speak to me.Īnd I want to speak back. There’s no need to wait until Mother’s Day to enjoy a similarly spirited selection of history’s finest motherly advice, spanning nearly half a millennium of poignant and prescient counsel from notable moms.įrom Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters ( public library), which also gave us the author’s surprising report card, comes this remarkable 1969 missive she penned aboard an airplane for her daughter Linda to revisit later in life: Anne Sexton Later adding to them was more timeless epistolary advice from notable dads like Ted Hughes, Sherwood Anderson, Richard Dawkins, and Charles Dickens. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Jackson Pollock, and Neil Armstrong. Last year, we celebrated Father’s Day with an omnibus of history’s finest letters of fatherly advice, including F. ![]()
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