I have a mother and I know her now and she had a mother and she used to know her mother; her mother is now dead. I have a daughter and she has a mother and I am that, her mother. I knew that woman, my mother's mother; I knew her more deeply and more fully than if I had spent every day of my childhood life with her. I spent every day of my childhood life with my own mother and I know my own mother better than I will know anyone else. This is so.
-Jamaica Kincaid