[Steve_Seattle]

"(Interestingly, she mentioned abuse by her mother. In our current society we blame the fathers, but I often wondered about some of the mothers.)"

She wrote a song called "This Is To Mother You," directed towards a hypothetical person who grew up without experiencing motherly love or acceptance. Perhaps she was thinking of her own experience when she wrote the song.

[MoochPooch]

One of my clients told me about her mother’s last words before slipping into a coma: “I probably got this cancer because I was such a bad mother to you.”