Motherhood Flashcards
Pope with a child
Joan: ‘But a Pope with a child was about as bad as possible.’ p.26
Joan’s ignorance towards her pregnancy
Joan: ‘But I wouldn’t have known how to get rid of it…Oh I didn’t want to pay attention. It was easier to do nothing…That’s what I should have done I suppose.’ p.27
Nijo: ‘And the child died too?’ Joan: ‘Oh yes, I think so, yes.’ p.29
Nijo giving birth
Nijo: ‘I announced I was seriously ill…He held me enough the waist and lifted map as the baby was born. He cut the cord with a short sword, wrapped the baby in white and toolkit away. It was only a girl but I was sorry to lose it. Then I told the Emperor that the baby had miscarried because of my illness…’ p.27
Nijo’s insensitivity towards her children
Nijo: ‘I never saw my third child after he was born, the son of Ariake the priest… My fourth child was Ariake’s too… But oddly I felt nothing for him.’ p.28
Her first child ‘unfortunately died’.
How many kids did Gret have?
Gret: ‘Ten.’ (children) p.28
Marlene and Joan’s surprise towards Griselda’s devotion towards Walter
Marlene: ‘But, Griselda, come on, he took your baby.’ p.33
Joan: ‘He killed his children to see if you loved him enough?’ p.35
Griselda’s belief that Walter owned their children, so…
Griselda: ‘It was Walter’s child to do what he liked with.’ p.34
Preference of boys over girls
Nijo: ‘Was it a boy?’ Griselda: ‘No, the first one was a girl.’ No: ‘Even so it’s hard when they take it away.’ p.34 Nijo: ‘Ah a boy. So it all ended happily.’ p.35 Nijo: ‘they beat their women across the loins so the’ll have sons and not daughters’ (similar to superstitions in VT ) - preference of boys over girls.
The killing of Gret’s children
Gret: ‘We’d all had family killed. My big son died on a wheel. Birds eat him. My baby, a soldier run her through with a sword. I’d had enough, I was mad, I hate the bastards.’ p.40
Angie’s view of her mother
Angie: ‘I don’t want her to like me. She’s a slag.’
Angie’s can recognise the truth
Angie: ‘I think I’m my aunt’s child. I think my mother’s really my auntie.’ p.52
Angie put on her dress to…
Angie: ‘I put this dress to kill my mother… You can kill people with a brick.’ 55
Marlene doesn’t even recognise Angie and asks…
Marlene: ‘Have you an appointment?’ p.64
Joyce and Marlene’s conversation discussing M’s visitation of her mother
Marlene: ‘I went to see mother.’ Joyce: ‘Did she recognise you?’ … Marlene: ‘Fucking awful life she’s had… Fucking waste.’ Joyce: ‘Just don’t go on about Mum’s life when you haven’t been to see her tor how may years. I go and see her every week.’
Marlene threatening Joyce to take Angie and Joyce’s response of her inability to get pregnant because…
Marlene: ‘Ill take her, wake her up and pack now.’ Joyce: ‘Listen when Angie was six months I did get pregnant and I lost it because I was so tired looking after your fucking baby.’ p.91
