Why Mothers?

Did Mother know best?

Or were her words overlooked because she was just a woman?

Find out whether there were pearls of wisdom in her everyday remarks.

Women’s relationships with their mothers are more fractured than ever before. The mother-daughter dialectic, so crucial in forming a young woman’s identity, has been deeply affected by pendulum swings between high feminism and its backlash. In addition, popular culture in the 21^st century offers seemingly limitless opportunities for women while focusing on images of vapid, female celebrity. Yet the trail of self-discovery through the territory of mother-daughter relationships is a rich and rewarding path, and when captured in memoir, can provide a glimpse of the road ahead.

Surprisingly, the profound experiences between daughter and mother remain mostly unrecorded, even though this bond is a woman’s primary relationship, at the core of her health and well-being. Giving voice to the complexities of mother-daughter relationships will speak common truths and make meaning of discord.

Wisdom Has a Voice: Daughters Remember Mothers begins a written tradition among women. This memoir anthology serves to reveal the hidden and important legacies of our mothers. With diverse writers from a variety of backgrounds, some well known, we will explore the fundamental events in mother-daughter relationships and how these shaped our lives.