“He’s becoming too young to leave by himself,” she thought with motherly concern for his welfare, “I guess it’s time to make arrangements for someone to look after him while I’m working. I’ll make some phone calls this morning at work and see what can be done for him.”
Motherhood
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia (b. 1947), “Homosexuality at the Fin de Siècle,” in Esquire (New York, Oct. 1991; repr. in Sex, Art, and American Culture, 1992).