motherliness

I wasn’t going to write this letter, but today i’ve been dodging phone calls from various newspapers who wished me to remark upon your having said in Rolling Stone your Wrecking Ball video was designed to be similar to the one for Nothing Compares … So this is what I need to say … And it is said in the spirit of motherliness and with love.

Fatherliness is more remarkable and rewarded than motherliness.

Fatherliness is more remarkable and rewarded than motherliness.

The show subverts the usual ideals of motherliness, not to create a black-comic monster but a new sort of heroine.

“Surely Mrs. Stanton has secured much immunity by a comfortable look of motherliness and a sly benignancy in her smiling eyes,” wrote one newspaper reporter, “even though her arguments have been bayonet thrusts and her words gun shots.”