Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.

My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land, I would fly into fits of bawling that I'm told would last for hours. If I couldn't triumph, I didn't want to play.

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.

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